Okay take all this information with a grain of a salt. This is a throwaway for obvious reasons but I've seen a lot of speculation realting to the recent bust in FL and felt like I could clear some things up.
John_ was busted as many of you are predicting. How do I know this? Because I knew him in IRL. I don't know to many details other then what the news is saying. But what I do know is I really don't see him keeping past orders as many people are worried about. I know he made some critcal mistakes but his OPSEC was usually on point. I also don't see John_ being the type to work with LE but then again facing life in prison may change that.
Now let's make some speculations! Not trying to spread FUD this is just what I know.
This guy got arrested the same day John_ did due to getting two packages intercepted. Are they connected or just a big coincidence? Who the fucks knows.
Now I know this is gonna piss some people off with what I'm about to say and like I've said plz said take this info for a grain of salt. But months ago John_ was actually known to me as HG. Now I've been out of a the DNM game for a bit so my info could be out dated but I know for a fact that John_ & HG were either working together or were the same person at least at one point. Now I don't know if the handle has been passed down since then or what but what I do know is as of yesterday afternoon HG was active 22 hrs. ago on DHL.
Today he is now active with the following statements
Yes I've been out with the flu for a few days and will be catching up on a flood of messages over this weekend when I am feeling better. I have a backlog of orders that will be sent out first thing Monday, everyone please just sit tight. All is well :) HG<3
Now I am in no way trying to ruin a perfect vendors rep. I'm just stating information that I know & hopefully just prevent anything bad from happenings to anyone else. I'm not saying HG is LE, but considering the recent bust it would not be impossible for LE to gain access to his accounts if he's talking. I've seen people say they've seen a signed PGP message from HG (which I haven't seen) but even if it was signed doesn't mean shit if they have access to everything.
I hope this post will help answer some of your questions & any of those who are involved please take John_ advice. Clean house, back up your online life and store it away from your home. Wish the best of luck to everyone impacted.
Let's take a moment and appreciate our freedom. I've done time for drug charges, and that shit isn't fun. Sometimes I feel like we as consumers or resellers forget that these vendors are people just like us. This guy is sitting in a cell wondering what the fuck is going to happen to him. I use this rule of thumb, if I have even the slightest feeling something smells of LE, I don't fuck with it. It's that easy. I'm sure 100% of the time I've just been paranoid, but after avoiding something that smelled of LE, I slept good that night. We have our freedom. It's beautiful.