They already knew he had an "unauthorized meter". The sting was wholly unnecessary to learn anything. It was purely the legal justification to slap on the C&D;

They already knew he had an "unauthorized meter". The sting was wholly unnecessary to learn anything. It was purely the legal justification to slap on the C&D; they needed evidence in the court-admissible sense. But the idea that they "noticed" anything in the process is silly. It was all scripted from minute 1.