Agreed. Is Rapier a former customer of Stans? If he is I understand his making this alt acct to bring forth his issues. If he has stated this then I missed it.
If he isn't a customer, formerly or presently, then is everyone ok with his posting behind an alt acct?
If he isn't a customer now or previously, what is he afraid of? I've gone after sources with a customer base 10 times the size of Stans using my original handle. Is he afraid of the backlash from members?
Rapier posted a thread started by a member about myself a few years back. The member attempted to "Out me". If we were all sitting in a large auditorium having Town Hall type meeting that member would likely have not made it to his car safely.
The member was labeled a snitch and subsequently left meso only to return with a different handle. I believe he has since returned to posting under his original handle as things have a way of blowing over.
Its a good read...especially because its about me. At the time I was on the run from the feds with an outstanding warrant for a Supervised Release Violation.
The US Marshal who had me on his caseload used Meso to try and pinpoint my whereabouts. It wasn't like there was a manhunt for me because I escaped from prison. The Marshals have a Fugitive Recovery Task Force who start at one end of the Valley and work their way back to LA where the Marshall who handled me was based. They do this at least once a month. They visit addressed and people I was associated with. My grown children received monthly visits from them telling them its best to try and get me to turn myself in and blah blah.
They pulled a girl who is a life long friend of my wifes over in an unregistered truck her uncle owned. She had her mentally retarded son with her. She was taking him to school. There was a time when I had stayed at her home. The Marshals were given this info. They pulled her over and they told her if she told them where we were(wife and I run together..codefendants) they would let her drive off in the unregistered vehicle. If she didn't the truck was going to be towed. She was left on the side of the road with her retarded son.
That was an expensive week. I worked things out with her uncle and paid the amount he was out.
Not everyone is as solid. I know who ratted us out. A local who we considered a "Friend" had a state case and turned informant. We were renting a house back in Aug 2018. He was friendly with the owner of the house. He was with the owner when he came to do a repair.
The next morning the street was closed off and the house surrounded. Palm Springs is a small town when it comes to locals. The guy had heard we were on the run and house hopping. Everything is for rent. We had gotten adept at staying off the radar. Doing what I was doing at the time makes it easy to do so.
The guy called his handler and told him he knew the whereabouts of 2 federal fugitives. The Marshals were at the local PD a few hours later to be briefed on things by the snitch. He gave them a layout of the house. Told which bedroom we slept in. Where I sat with my laptop, etc.
I know this because the guy who owned the home made a claim on his homeowners insurance to repair damages he said were made by LE when the entered the home. We always have cameras pointed in several directions(they knew this also) and we came out after making a few calls to have my son come and secure our belongings. He was outside before we were taken away.
Anyway, the home owners insurance company wanted proof that LE had caused the damage etc so he obtained a police report of the incident. In the report it spoke to how the local PD lent a supportive role to the Marshals. It talked about and named our "Friend" turned snitch and how he alerted local PD to our whereabouts and how he met with US Marshals to aid them with intel.
So, LE does in fact use sites like meso, FB and other sites where criminals are known to hang. The Marshal told me that morning he tried to locate me through my posts and the post of others.
Its grown up stuff going on here fellas.
I served a 10 month violation behind the wall for that class C violation. There isn't a penalty for running and not showing up for the court date to violate me, per say. I may have been given the low or medium end of the guidelines if I had turned myself in voluntarily and not the 10 months I got.(guidelines called for 4 to 10 months) The key is not to pick up new charges while running which people often do. I did not. That violation killed my paper and brought to a close my case from 2008. It was a long ride.
