RaidForums gets raided, alleged admin arrested
"Coelho landed on the radar of U.S. authorities in June 2018, when he tried to enter the United States at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta. The government obtained a warrant to search the electronic devices Coelho had in his luggage and found text messages, files and emails showing he was the RaidForums administrator Omnipotent."<p>Not really the sharpest knife in the drawer, to do things like this and then to go holidaying in the USA with incriminating stuff on your person...<p>Story time:<p>A guy I met who did stuff that <i>may</i> have come to the attention of US authorities was on a plane that got diverted to the USA for a medical emergency. The guy obviously got very upset and needed to go to the bathroom, urgently, on the way there he spotted a mate of his. They didn't like each other much but got to talk for a while and they both agreed that this was the end of the line. They both expected to be arrested upon landing because the passenger manifest was shared with the US authorities because of the overflight. The one remarked to the other: 'spending the rest of my life in jail is bad enough, but now I'm going to have to spend it with you and that is <i>so</i> much worse'.<p>The person who had the medical emergency was taken off the plane to go to hospital, the flight continued on its way, no disembarkation, no checks, nothing.