This is drug dealer ingenuity at its best.
The two Caucasian males had obtained ice methamphetamine from Mexican sources of supply in Omaha (NE) and were transporting the drugs to Louisville (KY) for distribution. The men concealed the ice methamphetamine in the body of a motorized, 3-foot hobby rocket connected by wires to the vehicle’s cigarette lighter (see Photo 12). If stopped by law enforcement officers en route to their destination, they planned to open the trunk of the vehicle, raise the methamphetamine-filled rocket into launching position using a string and pulley system, and launch the rocket into the air (see Photo 13). The two men had tested a similar rocket filled with 2 pounds of gravel that reached a height of about 1,200 feet and, based on the results of that test, expected the plastic bags containing the ice methamphetamine to melt or disintegrate and the drugs to scatter into the air.
Despite all their testing when the big day came these two creative chaps weren’t able to pull the trigger. When a state trooper attempted to pull them over they pulled into a restaurant parking lot but failed to launch their rocket. The driver tried the old “on foot” escape but failed at that as well.
I would have really liked to have been around when the two genuises thought up this scenario. Did they really think think that a three foot fucking rocket leaving the trunk of a car wouldn’t raise any kind of suspicion with a cop?
