How
do you get criminal charges against you dropped? Here's the unusual story
of how one fugitive got the Feds to drop the charges against him: he's
TOO guilty!
The federal government has more than 400,000 pages of evidence against
fugitive Miami doctor Armando Angulo, taking up some two terabytes of
digital space. On the surface, it sounds like a pretty solid case. But
at the urging of prosecutors, charges were dropped against the doctor
because the evidence is simply taking up too much space on government
servers.
"Continued storage of these materials is difficult and expensive,"
wrote Stephanie Rose, the U.S. attorney for northern Iowa, describing
the ongoing evidence storage as "an economic and political hardship"
for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
As the Associated Press notes, the collection of evidence against
Angulo, who is charged with illegally selling prescription medicines
online, is enough to print the classic novel "War and Peace"
625,000 times.
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