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Prosecutors highlighted “about $10,000 — $8,000 in U.S. dollars and then $2,000 in foreign currency that was found on his person,” CNN correspondent Danny Freeman said following the court hearing.

“Also they said that he had a Faraday bag,” which blocks cell signals, a move that prosecutors alleged marked “an indication of criminal sophistication and reason they should hold him on bail,” Freeman continued.

After prosecutors made the claims, Mangione said he would like to “correct two things.”

“I don’t know where any of that money came from — I’m not sure if it was planted. And also, that bag was waterproof, so I don’t know about criminal sophistication,” the suspect said in a statement that suggested police framed him.

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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    20 hours ago

    Police don’t go capture a random dude and then plant every evidence on him “because they need a scapegoat"

    Yikes, how cringe. And in the most public way possible. Hope you recover from this huge mistake someday soon.

    • GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 hours ago

      Don’t worry. Just like every other bootlicker on the Internet, the PTB have seen their loyalty, and shall lift them on high to live out their halcyon days in Valhalla.