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