DEA Lack of Data Storage Results In Dismissed Drug Case 242
Nerval's Lobster writes "Dr. Armando Angulo was indicted in 2007 on charges of illegally selling prescription drugs. He fled the country in 2004, with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and U.S. Marshals Service eventually finding him in Panama. As the case developed (and Panama resisted calls to extradite Angulo back to the United States), the DEA apparently amassed so much electronic data that maintaining it is now a hardship; consequently, the government wants to drop the whole case. 'These materials include two terabytes of electronic data (which consume approximately 5 percent of DEA's world-wide electronic storage capacity),' Stephanie M. Rose, the U.S. attorney for northern Iowa, wrote in the government's July motion to dismiss the indictment. 'Continued storage of these materials is difficult and expensive.' In addition, information associated with the case had managed to fill 'several hundred boxes' of paper documents, along with dozens of computers and servers. As pointed out by Ars Technica, if two terabytes of data storage represents 5 percent of the DEA's global capacity, then the agency has only 40 terabytes worth of storage overall. That seems quite small for a law enforcement agency tasked with coordinating and pursuing any number of drug investigations at any given time."
Note to the DEA (Score:4, Funny)
I guess $150 is too much for the DEA to spend.
Note to criminals: To avoid prosecution, buy a few 2TB hard drives and fill them with dd if=/dev/urandom of=/mnt/hardrive1
Re:It smells, like yesterday's fish! (Score:0, Funny)
Nice job of making stuff up. You'll fit right in here!
Re:2 billion dollar budget and 2TB is too much? (Score:5, Funny)
Absolutely not! (Score:5, Funny)
The war on drugs is a disaster. Decriminalize all drugs, since that is the only thing that leads to a decrease in drug use and an increase in treatment.
I own stock in prison companies and if we decriminalize all drugs, then what am I to do?! And then there are all those cops, prosecutors, rehab, and the thousands of people who depend on drugs being illegal for their livings!
And then there is the morality of it all. Alcohol is different I say!
And it's important that someone who's been caught several times with a joint go to jail for the rest of their life because we all know stoners are causing all this trouble in society - being all mellow and such rot! They should be in the rat race - working themselves to death to make sure that the 1% keep their socioeconomic status. Don't those pot heads know that they are destroying the fabric of society?!
And the Bible says somewhere "Thou shalt not smoke a toke. Thous shalt not do blow." and some others; which means drugs aren't Christian - except for alcohol. Jesus had red wine for blood so drinking red wine is drinking Jesus' blood and therefore will get you into heaven. Really! It's in the Bible!
Enough for now. I just wish you anti-society hippies would keep your mouths shut!
Re:Don't forget the hundreds of boxes of paper (Score:4, Funny)
I noticed the summary conveniently forgets to mention that there are also several hundred boxes of paper evidence.
From the summary:
In addition, information associated with the case had managed to fill 'several hundred boxes' of paper documents
Next time you decide to bash the summary, read it first.
Re:It smells, like yesterday's fish! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:sooo... (Score:4, Funny)
On the other hand.....
Maybe a good thing. If we can't limit the size of government lets limit the size of their data storage.
Re:Dismiss every drug case (Score:5, Funny)
To be fair this guy is selling prescription drugs illegally.
That's like protected by copyrights and patents and shit. If he was selling coke or heroin to kids that might be one thing, but now he is messing the very fabric of our economy!