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7 hrs ago
The federal government has more than 400,000 pages of evidence against fugitive Miami doctor Armando Angulo, taking up some two terabytes of digital space. On the surface, it sounds like a pretty solid case. But at the urging of prosecutors, charges were dropped against the doctor because the evidence is simply taking up too much space on government servers.
"Continued storage of these materials is difficult and expensive," wrote Stephanie Rose, the U.S. attorney for northern Iowa, describing the ongoing evidence storage as "an economic and political hardship" for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
As the Associated Press notes, the collection of evidence against Angulo, who is charged with illegally selling prescription medicines online, is enough to print the classic novel "War and Peace" 625,000 times.
The evidence against Angulo alone reportedly was taking up 5 percent of the DEA's entire worldwide global storage network. Part of that limited storage capacity stems from the fact that the DEA has not recently upgraded its storage capacity. An external hard drive with a terabyte of storage can be easily purchased online at outlets like Best Buy for around $100.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/federal-charges-dropped-against-fugitive-doctor-because-too-184830159.html?_esi=1
What the.....!
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)rocktivity
DainBramaged
(39,191 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)it seems asses abound throughout the government
'We have enough evidence to convict him but it takes up too much room, so we are going to let him go so he can go out and do it again'
frylock
(34,825 posts)ridiculous.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)because they are too busy going after piddly little MMJ dispensaries in CA. A recent BIG bust of the owner of 3 local dispensaries just went up in smoke according to someone who knows the owner personally - there was zero evidence and all charges have been dropped, but not after a huge show bust for the media and ruining the owner's good name in the media. These sort of things cost a lot. So they can't afford a couple of 1 TB hard drives, you see.
DCKit
(18,541 posts)Last Sunday's WaPo insert had ads from several retail outlets with 2Tb HDDs going for <$160.
ljm2002
(10,751 posts)I have a 1-Terabyte drive that I bought for just over one hundred dollars two years ago. Maybe they should trot down to their local Fry's, or log onto Amazon, and buy some more damned disk space.
This is one of the more absurd stories I have seen recently. This is from the Onion -- right?
Zalatix
(8,994 posts)MadrasT
(7,237 posts)Data storage is cheap now and 2T is nothing. They had another reason to want to drop this.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Fry's right now has 2Tb USB3.0 external for $99.99
http://www.frys.com/product/6771685?site=sa:adpages page 7_FRI date:081712