Feds have a ton of evidence from the $1 billion drug bust
Federal authorities are combing through"voluminous" evidence including audio in obscure languages, texts, navigation data, and physical evidence afterProsecutors indicted Nenad Ilic, a nautical engineering trainee from Montenegro, last month.
Harvey Brattle III, a Pennsylvania district court judge, granted prosecutors more time to prepare their case this week, court filings show. "This case is so unusual and complex due to the nature of the prosecution, including the volume of discovery materials and the large number of potential witnesses, that it is unreasonable to expect adequate preparation for pretrial proceedings or for the trial itself within the time limits," Judge Brattle ruled on a motion for a speedy trial.
Judge Brattle underlined the immense scale of the MSC Gayane in the court order. He highlighted that it carries thousands of shipping containers, spans"more than three football fields in length," and contains an"extensive network" of navigation technology and other computers and electronics.Over 4,000 hours of audio recorded by six microphones on the MSC Gayane
Data from more than 50 mobile phones, laptop and desktop computers, external hard drives, and other devicesMore than 500,000 megabytes of data from the MSC Gayane's voyage data recorder or"black box," including radar activity and other navigation dataPhysical evidence gathered from searches of shipping containers, cabins, offices, and other parts of the shipMaking the discovery process even more daunting: the bulk of the audio recordings, emails, texts, and documents have to be...
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