Harmful if Swallowed Posted By Daniel Kaiser, Esq. on March 9, 2010
Have you finished digesting that data sir?
Spoliation simply can’t get much worse than this. Following his arrest outside of a bank in Queens, New York this January, Florin Necula apparently swallowed a 4 GB Kingston flash drive in an attempt to keep Secret Service agents from discovering the evidence. Facing a charge for the use of a “skimmer” to collect ATM and credit card numbers, Necula’s bizarre version of spoliation also earned him a charge of obstruction of justice.
According to court documents, while in custody at the US Secret Services offices Necula grabbed the flash drive “which had been on his person at the time of his arrest, and swallowed. Doctors from the New York Downtown Hospital later removed the flash drive because they were concerned that Necula would be injured if they allowed the flash drive to remain inside him.”[1]
This procedure to “safely eject” the flash drive from Necula’s operating system took place four days after it had been ingested. It seems that the suspect was proving, shall we say, retentive.
Was your account information lodged in this man’s descending colon? I, for one, wouldn’t care to be the forensics expert to find out.
[1] Affidavit in support of search warrants, issued to the United States District Court, Eastern District of New York.
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