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I thought what had happened was they used his (pretty benign) hacking to justify a raid on his place then nailed him on drug charges? Or did they also pin hacki

• rdl 14y ago
  They dropped all the local drug charges and stuck to federal hacking charges. Fayetteville, AR is a very poor/bad place and I think someone with a trivial amount of drugs, who is also a supreme internet troll, is not someone they'd want to prosecute locally.
  • joe_bleau 14y ago
    Ever been there? Fayetteville is a nice little college town and part of the booming northwest corner of the state. It's certainly not very poor.
    • rdl 14y ago
      Ah, no, you are right. I was generalizing from "Arkansas and not Bentonville", but I didn't realize how close it was. (I think this was based on an IRC discussion a few years before weev's arrest when people were wondering wtf everyone was moving to Fayetteville). Although court funding is state level, so Arkansas being poor overall would increase the desire to push stuff up to the feds. And I think states always do that anyway.