Hard to Swallow: Fraud Suspect Hides USB Key...In His Intestines

By: Neil Katz
Topics: Daily Blotter

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NEW YORK (CBS) Federal agents say evidence against an alleged credit card scammer may have been hard to swallow, but he did anyway. And the government reached into his intestines to get it out.

According to the New York Daily News, Florin Necula was being booked by the U.S. Secret Service when he grabbed a flash drive which allegedly contained damming evidence against him and swallowed it whole.

Investigators were not deterred by the gut-wrenching turn of events. They sent Necula to New York Downtown Hospital, reports the paper, where doctors pulled the offending flash drive from his intestines.

The feds say Necula was part of a credit card scamming ring that stole numbers from ATM machines and turned them into new bogus cards, according to the News.

But the key evidence is now in question. Necula's attorney, Sanford Talkin, filed a motion to suppress claiming "they didn't have a right to take it from him," says the paper.

Necula was indicted for fraud and obstruction of justice.

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by jjfrost500 March 7, 2010 7:34 PM EST: he could also be charge with obstruction of justice- lmao; Reply to this comment


by qkwark March 6, 2010 4:48 AM EST: damn that intestine damming evidence; Reply to this comment


by kenhamlett March 4, 2010 10:31 AM EST: Obviously obstruction but of a more obvious kind.
Does this mean there will be an emerging market in cone shaped drives to make "passing information" easier?; Reply to this comment


by mitch0927 March 4, 2010 10:25 AM EST: I didn't read where it was already being booked into evidence. Good chance his stomach acid had already damaged the drive. Creep is just wanting to grab at any chance to get off. Hope the guy burns for what he did to others.; Reply to this comment

by excop1949 March 4, 2010 8:17 AM EST

Well...it was in "plain view" for a second...but a search warrant would have been nice.
Not to mention that just waiting would produce the same result...

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by porcine_aviator March 4, 2010 10:30 AM EST: You have a point. Either it comes out on its own and they convict him, or they wait until the bowel blockage kills him while he waits in the holding cell and then they retrieve it during autopsy.

by lilbear925 March 3, 2010 5:26 PM EST

Yeah, instead of removing the flash drive from his intestine, they should have just shot him.

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by RoboBlogger March 3, 2010 6:28 PM EST: you mean a two for one: suspect received a gsw to the abdomin and while surgeon's worked to remove the bullet from the patient's abdomin they came across a usb jump/flash drive. viola! how hard was that?


by porcine_aviator March 4, 2010 10:28 AM EST: "you mean a two for one: suspect received a gsw to the abdomin and while surgeon's worked to remove the bullet from the patient's abdomin they came across a usb jump/flash drive. viola! how hard was that? "

No, silly, just shoot him! Save the taxpayers some money (shoot him in the back of the head), and get the evidence needed to shoot the next bad guy involved. Case closed, no trials, no sleazy lawyers, and no jail overcrowding.