So, if you are acting during the normal course of business, you are not liable. If someone tries to buy a rope from your store saying they are going to use it t

So, if you are acting during the normal course of business, you are not liable. If someone tries to buy a rope from your store saying they are going to use it to strangle someone, you can sell it to them anyway, you are not liable. The prosecution is arguing he is a co-conspirator. The biggest evidence mentioned in the article was that the guy asked Alfred to make a compartment big enough to store 10 kgs [of cocaine]. As in, he literally specified how big the compartment needed to be in terms of kgs of drugs. That wouldn't fall under the normal course of business, that's doing custom work specifically to aid in an illegal activity.