Man's bitcoin mining leads to police raiding his home

[AaronCraig]

Man's bitcoin mining leads to police raiding his home for using a suspicious amount of electricity

https://i.imgur.com/4ZonDTo.png

[Krang]

Has already been posted but can't seem to find the thread now. Maybe it got moved to the Press section.

[dairy100]

Thats silly. spend all that money to raid someone just for an alleged plant?

[caribbeanbitcoiner]

I go to college in that area, The place is a real shit hole. How can the police seize his computers if he was never charged?

[coinmaster222]

I go to college in that area. The place is a real shit hole.

Why so? Because you've got an active police?

[caribbeanbitcoiner]

I go to college in that area. The place is a real shit hole.

Why so? Because you've got an active police?

No, it's a real crappy city down south. I've heard it's the meth capital of the east coast. I don't know how true that is.

[coinmaster222]

No, it's a real crappy city down south. I've heard it's the meth capital of the east coast. I don't know how true that is.

Oh I see what you mean now.

[Professor Plums]

I'm sure this wont be the last time someone is raided because of their electricity use.

I go to college in that area. The place is a real shit hole.

Why so? Because you've got an active police?

He didn't say it was for that reason. He probably thinks its a shithol because he's familiar with the area.

[niothor]

Has already been posted but can't seem to find the thread now. Maybe it got moved to the Press section.

It has indeed already been posted:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=781703

Op , stop making duplicates

[bornil267645]

all this things makes me step away from mining even more.

[Onanula]

"yet... the police seized all computers and the physical bitcoins that the Deendant possessed."

So... even though it's not illegal to use electricity, they confiscated his computers, etc.?
Also, what's a physical Bitcoin? Possibly paper wallets? Why would they seize safes or paper if no marijuana was being grown in the house?

[FloodZone]

They took his computers??!! That's his business, quite possibly his livelihood. And they actually charged him with crimes with very little evidence - a bit of marijuana in the house. A lot of states have a low fine if it's found in someone's pockets, but that's it. His lawyer is shit, total utter shit. He should be pressing every legal button available.

[ajareselde]

"yet... the police seized all computers and the physical bitcoins that the Deendant possessed."

So... even though it's not illegal to use electricity, they confiscated his computers, etc.?
Also, what's a physical Bitcoin? Possibly paper wallets? Why would they seize safes or paper if no marijuana was being grown in the house?

earning money without paying taxes is a problem , as you can see for yourself..

they had a reason to enter his house, which did not led to marijuana, but to possibly incriminating acts against states tax laws.

[caribbeanbitcoiner]

They took his computers??!! That's his business, quite possibly his livelihood. And they actually charged him with crimes with very little evidence - a bit of marijuana in the house. A lot of states have a low fine if it's found in someone's pockets, but that's it. His lawyer is shit, total utter shit. He should be pressing every legal button available.

Down here the police force is just a money grabber for the city. Take a look at this article, It's pretty common for the cops to do as they feel and seize anything of value.

http://www.breezejmu.org/news/article_765b428a-8ee3-11e3-8e0f-001a4bcf6878.html

[oceans]

Wow, what a waste of time and money just to find out it was not what they thought it was. Usually these kind of things are dealt with over a tip off from someone rather than just a very high use of electricity so does make you wonder why they did not double check before raiding.

[gogxmagog]

The cops have his rigs mining away down at the station. Donut coin!

[Magicman420]

This is crazy, I feel bad for the guy, didn't even know it was illegal.

[Lethn]

No, it's a real crappy city down south. I've heard it's the meth capital of the east coast. I don't know how true that is.

Oh I see what you mean now.

Trust me, when somebody says that the town they've lived in is a shit hole, they know what what they're talking about, I don't know if this is a duplicate but it's definitely happened before, the police keep thinking that the electricity spikes from Bitcoin miners are the same as drug labs and such.

This may also be a sign that Bitcoin miners need to look at independent power supplies which can't be tracked LOL

[Kluge]

This has happened an odd number of times (at least two other times I can vaguely recall). I guess when your electricity provider sends the letter asking what's causing you to draw so much electricity, you damn well better fill it out truthfully and return the form in a timely manner.

[BIT-Sharon]

Though maybe the police can't find the evidence, the deed of commit a crime may block Bitcoin to be accepted by all the governments of the world. The spring of Bitcoin is far.