Technological advances are modifying practically all sectors, even the criminal. Not long ago we echoed a group of drug traffickers who used autonomous cars to move the merchandise, since by not having a driver, it did not put at risk any person who could be intercepted by the police. now has appeared a new strategyThat has to do with Amazon and with garden decoration.
The FBI has opened an investigation in collaboration with the Center for Homeland Security to try to delve into a drug ring that hides drugs in decorative garden stones that are sold on Amazon. The authorities intercepted several shipments of packages of these decorative stones that they hid very alarming figures of methamphetamine, approaching 10kg per shipment in some cases. The feds traced the origin of the products and found another package prepared in an Amazon warehouse in San Diegoand surprise, it came with a gift.
Amazon was in a lot of trouble, since the drug was being kept in their own warehouses. The sales titan has shown all its support for the security forces to try to track the companies responsible for marketing the product with the greatest precision, and currently works with Homeland Security and the US Department of Justice offering information on the origin of the orders.
Drug traffickers used Amazon’s shipping network to reach their customers around the world.
The collaboration of these organisms revealed that more than five fake sellers were using Amazon’s shipping network to market decorative garden products with drugs inside. And be careful, because these vendors were well distributed and managed to create a kind of international secret network shipping narcotics through Amazon.
As reported by Forbes, on November 8 the authorities managed to a search warrant at the warehouses of one of the suppliers, which was in charge of marketing decorative stones, pots and all kinds of garden equipment. The police dog “Blue” was key to the case, since its keen sense of smell managed to detect traces of methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin in several packages that would soon go into circulation.