Drug dealer jailed after sharing a photo of cheese
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The block of mature blue cheese that proved Carl Stewart's undoing. (Photo: CNN)
(CNN) A drug dealer whose fingerprints were analyzed by police when he shared a photo of his hand holding a block of cheese has been sentenced to 13 years and six months in prison.
Carl Stewart, 39, from Liverpool, northwestern England, sent a picture on an encrypted device of a block of Stilton he had found in upmarket British grocery store Marks & Spencer, Merseyside Police said in a press release.
But the photograph was discovered by police, who used it to analyze his fingerprints and identify Stewart.
Authorities said Stewart's "love of Stilton cheese" led to his arrest.
He was jailed on Friday after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine, heroin, MDMA and ketamine, and to transferring criminal property, police said.
Stewart sent the image on EncroChat, an encrypted messaging service used exclusively by criminals that was infiltrated by police in a major operation last year.
"Carl Stewart was involved in supplying large amounts of class A and B drugs, but was caught out by his love of Stilton cheese, after sharing a picture of a block of it in his hand through encrochat," Detective Inspector Lee Wilkinson said in a statement. "His palm and fingerprints were analysed from this picture and it was established they belonged to Stewart."
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And in 2016, two equally unfortunate robbers held up a McDonald's in France -- only to discover that 11 armed members of an elite paramilitary force happened to be eating inside.
Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk!
Stilton really is a tasty cheese.
I have always loved cheese, and Stilton has been my favourite for a long time. The Chinese people seem to only be familiar with processed cheese slices that are used to make cheeseburgers, so I have to buy my variety of cheese types at the big METRO box store that carry many imported goods, but they rarely carry Stilton
"Gromit! That's it, cheese! We'll go somewhere where there's cheese!"...
"Wensleydale? Stilton? Hmm, I don't know lad, it's like no cheese I've ever tasted"...
Almost as good as Roquefort...
So, news to this guy, but the technology is good enough, apparently, to identify your prints from a pic posted on a social media site. Also news to Stewart, a site used exclusively by criminals might garner some attention from the cops.
Well, at least it was a Mature Blue Stilton (if was an immature Blue Stilton, he could have been charged with an additional crime..if he crossed state lines with it!
That guy should get a life. Oh wait, he just may get life.
During his booking photo, was he asked to smile and say cheese?