Police Arrest Drug Dealer After Identifying His Fingerprints From A Photo He Posted Online
A drug dealer was caught by police when he posted a picture of himself while holding a block of his favourite cheese.
Say cheese, no more! A drug dealer was caught by police when he posted a picture of himself while holding a block of his favourite cheese.
Carl Stewart, 39, was identified by Merseyside Police in the UK by his fingerprints after police analysed the picture, which he had posted in an online chat.
Merseyside Police
Detectives had cracked the encrypted group and were closely watching Stewart, who posted under the handle Toffeeforce, over suspicions of drug dealing, BBC reported. They had been waiting for him to slip, and he eventually ended up leading to his own downfall.
It was unclear exactly why he posted the picture of the cheese.
¡°Stewart used the handle ¡®Toffeeforce¡¯ on EncroChat and supplied large amounts of class A and B drugs,¡± Merseyside Police said on Facebook.
¡°He was identified after sharing an image on his (encrypted) device of a block of cheese in the palm of his hand, from which his fingerprints were analysed.
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Stewart has now been jailed for 13 years and six months after admitting conspiracy to supply cocaine, conspiracy to supply heroin, conspiracy to supply MDMA, conspiracy to supply ketamine and transferring criminal property.
According to a report in The Guardian, he used EncroChat to supply large amounts of class A and B drugs under the online pseudonym ¡°Toffeeforce¡±, a reference to the English Premier League club Everton.
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Merseyside Police
Detective Inspector Lee Wilkinson of the Merseyside Police in Liverpool said: "Carl Stewart was involved in supplying large amounts of class A and B drugs, but was caught out by his love of stilton cheese... His palm and fingerprints were analysed from this picture.¡±
Well, that's one way of going down. He surely is out of love with cheese now.
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