Prison librarian swaps books for bars after dark-web gun buy caper A prison librarian in England was today sentenced to more than seven years in prison for trying to buy a handgun and bullets online and for drug offences. Dwain Osborne, of Avenue Road, Penge, in London, was nabbed in October of 2015 after he sought to procure a Glock 19 – a staple of police and security forces worldwide – and …
It would be more accurate to write this as
"drug dealing (fact) prison librarian (fact) fails to buy gun and ammo on dark web. (fact)"
that he didn't get near a gun (apart from the officers that arrested him) and that the NCA had already got the monitoring/ sting operation in place to stop him, is probably not going to be mentioned when they apply for more funds to deal with the dark web threat™.
The politicos should be flagging the fact that this guy was running drugs into a prison uncaught.
Well judging by prison movies like Shawshank Redemption (which I'm sure are totally accurate!) that's a pretty cushy job that would be high on any inmate's list. Whether they go by seniority or by who is doing favors for the warden, he's probably going to be washing dishes or doing laundry.
Because it's trivial for the NCA to bust would-be BUYERS of darknet weapons. All they have to do is open a vendor account, sit back and wait for Walter Mitty to bite.
Surely more interesting (and worthy?) targets (no pun intended) for Plod are the darknet firearm SELLERS.
My suspicion is they can't touch them.
Why was the headline not "Osborne jailed for possession of cocaine after trying to buy gun"? Our former chancellor's fondness for Bolivian bingo dust being well known, it seems like the perfect opportunity.
Come on, guys, the clickbait standard has slipping terribly round here of late.
Yep. I recently read this article on the BBC regarding dark net drug dealings and the postal service:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/38223838/is-your-postman-delivering-drugs
Summary: Buy/sell your drugs on the dark net. It's pretty damn safe.
Good work, BBC. I'm not sure that's what you had in mind when you published that article, but that's what it boils down to. They pretty much tell you how to do it. I'm surprised there weren't any links.
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