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How to avoid having to ask the judge for a search warrant in connection with a criminal investigation? By becoming friends with the thug on Instagram.
We know that the police are engaged in a standby increasingly active on social networks, to track down pedophiles, sex offenders, terrorists and hackers.
But perhaps less well known that this tracking also relates to common crime, often because of naivety or simply stupidity of some thugs, who often can not resist the temptation to expose the social networks different loot their latest mischief and a lifestyle very bling.
Thus, there is a few months, a sponsor of the Mexican drug fell abundantly displayed for a very luxurious life (including gold plated shiny Kalashnikov best taste) with many photos posted on Instagram.
But how, when we confuse a police officer to suspect that protected his account on a social network? It's simple: just impersonate a nobody and make a friend request. If the mafia accepts, bingo, this is a follow which can be worth gold.
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This was learned the hard Daniel Gatson, a burglar in series of New Jersey, USA. The guy had posted on his Instagram account number of silver jewelry and photos that were most likely the product of federal offenses . Their account is protected, we had to ask to follow in order to see the content, what was done by officers in charge of the investigation, which created a fake account to get access.
Supporting evidence, the police requested a search warrant to search the home Gatson? The latter attempted to obtain a cancellation of the procedure, arguing that it violated his rights under the Fourth Amendment . The judge denied the motion on the grounds that Gatson deliberately approved the request of friends Agent and that in this case, " no search warrant n ' is necessary for sharing consensus of this information " .
Moral: Beware of your friends, especially if you have unorthodox stuff to show ...