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2022-01-30 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Undercover Florida detectives use gay dating apps Grindr and Scruff to bust 68 'drug dealers': Six-month-long sting 'Swipe Left for Meth' found people were dealing cocaine, LSD, fentanyl and more
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • The Polk County Sheriff's Department has arrested 68 drug dealers who used gay dating apps Grindr, Scruff and Taimi to meet their clients

  • For six months, undercover detectives talked to the dealers with fake profiles

  • 'It was a shock to us that they were openly advertising,' said Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd at a press conference on Thursday

  • Judd said that dealers were using codewords like 'Tina,' the ice cream emoji and the birthday cake emoji to advertise their sales

  • They seized around 280 grams of meth, 3 grams of cocaine, 130 pills of MDMA, 1.5 grams of Fentanyl/heroin and one gram of LSD

  • Many of those arrested had rap sheets - one man had 32 prior felonies

  • One of the dealers had 13 guests arrested for drug-related charges when police raided his home, and another had 14 guns seized
Posted by Skidmark 2022-01-30 00:14|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top
 File under: Narcos 

#1 It is unfortunate that Law Enforcement Sources and Methods were disclosed.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-01-30 02:34||   2022-01-30 02:34|| Front Page Top

#2 undercover detectives talked to the dealers with fake profiles

I have it on good authority that 'honey pots' have been around since there was honey.
Posted by Skidmark 2022-01-30 05:56||   2022-01-30 05:56|| Front Page Top

#3 The whole idea is to scare off the rest of the homo drug dealers.
Posted by Sheter the Lesser9291 2022-01-30 06:04||   2022-01-30 06:04|| Front Page Top

#4 DeSantis Law Enforcement loyalists? This is likely to have a devastating impact on the D.C. beltway community. Several 'people of colour' involved. The FBI would have had to have declined involvement in this one.

All of those nice people and not one outstanding federal warrant or incident of interstate activity? Amazing to say the least.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-01-30 06:25||   2022-01-30 06:25|| Front Page Top

#5 It is unfortunate that Law Enforcement Sources and Methods were disclosed.

Especially when Law Enforcement discloses it.
Posted by badanov 2022-01-30 06:29||   2022-01-30 06:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Where's Gillum?
Maybe the sweep will catch the next depraved Democrat candidate
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-01-30 07:01||   2022-01-30 07:01|| Front Page Top

#7 Where’s Gillum? Barney Frank Naples FL Condo.
Posted by Airandee 2022-01-30 07:14||   2022-01-30 07:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Hunter must be outraged. I for one, demand the 'Grindr and Scruff' dating App software be returned to it's rightful owners the Biden Crime family and the US Congress at once !

Posted by Besoeker 2022-01-30 07:37||   2022-01-30 07:37|| Front Page Top

#9 BTW, what's Lil' Crackpipe up to now? Been awfully quiet lately.... Was he spotted in Kazakhstan during the recent festivities? Inquiring minds want to know
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2022-01-30 07:41||   2022-01-30 07:41|| Front Page Top

#10 Cranking out highly profitable bribes artwork
Posted by Frank G 2022-01-30 07:44||   2022-01-30 07:44|| Front Page Top

#11 Sounds like a waste of money and time considering the small amount of drugs they got.
Posted by Chris 2022-01-30 09:21||   2022-01-30 09:21|| Front Page Top

#12 The dealers are off the street. The guns are off the street. Hard to see how that's not a win.
Posted by M. Murcek  2022-01-30 09:27||   2022-01-30 09:27|| Front Page Top

#13 "Of course I still love you, honey. The app is just a work thing. It's a work thing, I swear!"
Posted by SteveS 2022-01-30 11:59||   2022-01-30 11:59|| Front Page Top

#14 And they'll be out within the week more than likely.
Posted by Chris 2022-01-30 12:24||   2022-01-30 12:24|| Front Page Top

#15 Why on earth is a man with 32 prior felonies still out on the street?
Posted by Tom 2022-01-30 14:00||   2022-01-30 14:00|| Front Page Top

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