Can LEA controlling a vendor account fulfil orders and ship drugs to buyers?

We know they're prepared to transmit child porn to pedos, and run a market over which other people sell drugs to each other. But if they controlled a vendor's account (like iCoke on Dream), could they receive orders and ship the drugs? Would that even be legal or stand up in court? Assuming no controlled delivery for immediate arrest on arrival.

If not, then assuming the market itself is not compromised and LEA haven't swapped out vendor PGP for MITM, every vendor that anybody has sucessfully received an order from (ordered since the Hansa takedown) is safe. If they were LEA, nobody would actually receive a package from them.

Sorry if this is obvious to everyone else. It allows us to potentially build a 'whitelist' as well as the compromised vendor 'blacklist'.


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[3 Points] mrmcepic69:

I remember watching a documentery that said that police can do anything but introduce new drugs into the system. Which is why a lot of people force whoever they're talking to to give them a joint before doing business to see if they're a cop or not.


[3 Points] throwahooawayyfoe:

LE can perform a controlled sale just like they can do a controlled buy or a controlled delivery. Whether they can do it legally in the context of the DNM's and keep doing it over a continued period of time (without already having prior investigations started into each individual that buys from them) would be a question for a good lawyer.


[2 Points] whoiiinvitedthisguy:

Bruh I've heard about female cops going as far as giving people blowjobs. And then later busting the same people. Shits crazy. I'd say it depends on the individual agent

EDIT: because when it comes down to it all they care about is catching someone committing a crime... and if they catch someone then THEIR boss is happy... which is all that matters right?


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[1 Points] cdimeo:

If they were LEA, nobody would actually receive a package from them.

Seems like it was pretty obvious to you too mate? Do you think they'd fulfill your darknet order (with drugs that they either never had, or was then sitting in the evidence locker for use in a trial) and ship it to you for sale to your friends? Please also note the crimes they'd have to commit themselves to do so, and the fact that they wouldn't need the drugs in the first place to print a label to go on the box they found to use in your CD.

No, I don't think they would do that. It also wouldn't be entrapment to run take over the market and keep it operating a barebones level.


[1 Points] Polygon_Windows:

only if they plan on intercepting those drugs again. its been done with NL to UK packs in the past.


[1 Points] None:

I mean I guess lmao.