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    Smile Cops are dressing up like FedEX guys and arresting people for drugs...

    Cops are dressing up like FedEX guys and arresting people for drugs... A little-known agreement allows police officers to seize packages at FedEx sorting centers.

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    A federal court ruled this month that evidence of drugs obtained by police from a package at a FedEx sorting center was not seized unconstitutionally, rejecting the defendant's arguments that the seizure violated his Fourth Amendment rights.

    At the center of the decision is a little-known agreement allowing law enforcement agencies to seize parcels at the shipping behemoth's sorting centers. Police are permitted to take packages only if a drug dog indicates there may be contraband inside. Individual cops, however, determine which packages merit attention, allowing them to zero in on people's property, dress up as FedEx delivery men, and proceed with arrests if they testify that a drug dog alerted them appropriately.

    Such was the case with Herbert Green, who had his package singled out at a FedEx sorting center after Kansas City Police Department (KCPD) Detective Antonio Garcia noticed a return label from Brownsville, Texas. That's a "source city for illegal narcotics," the officer said, who was further interested by the parcel's glued seams and the fact that it was a "moving" box. Those get his attention "right away," he testified, because of their material, which he claims are well-suited to shipping drugs.

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    https://reason.com/2021/08/26/cops-a...ple-for-drugs/
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    That's interesting.

    I buy things here and there on eBay, and I bet probably one-third of them arrive having been opened and resealed. I always wonder if some sort of inspector opened them looking for drugs aor contraband of some sort.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FindersKeepers View Post
    That's interesting.

    I buy things here and there on eBay, and I bet probably one-third of them arrive having been opened and resealed. I always wonder if some sort of inspector opened them looking for drugs aor contraband of some sort.
    I get live music CD's from Canada, every few orders, the box has been opened and re-taped by customs...Actually twice, I noticed black ants crawling in and out of one of the boxes, I'm glad I noticed it before I brought it in the house. Damn Canadian ant invasion LOL

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    A few decades ago, a friend was getting large quantities of pot from Cali (no return address on the box), through the US postal service. The last time he did it, he walked into the post office and was escorted directly into a back room by the local sheriff, where he was told by the local Post Master (and a local cop who was also present) that he could open the box right there or he could walk away...he chose to walk away...I believe the loophole was no return address on the box, so he just said he had no idea where/who it came from or what the contents were...I believe he found religion shortly thereafter

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