Here's an older article, talking about how the reason the authorities found this person was because one of the other defendants called him from jail to ask him

Here's an older article, talking about how the reason the authorities found this person was because one of the other defendants called him from jail to ask him to remove things: https://www.foxnews.com/us/man-busted-anti-government-anti-trump-documents-after-texas-ice-ambush-suspect-phone-call-feds-say https://www.foxnews.com/us/man-busted-anti-government-anti-t... I would expect that at that point it ought to stop mattering whether the evidence being hidden actually would have been useful evidence.