A drug dealer in Liverpool, England, was arrested after police were able to identify him via a photo of him holding cheese.
Carl Stewart, 39, was sentenced to 13 and a half years last week after pleading guilty to conspiracy to supply cocaine, conspiracy to supply heroin, MDMA, and ketamine, and transferring criminal property.
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Police identified Stewart after he posted a photo on the encrypted messaging service EncroChat. The photo showed a block of Mature Blue Stilton Marks & Spencer cheese that he was holding in his left hand.
Law enforcement was able to analyze his palm and fingerprints after being able to crack the encryption service and thus could identify him.
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He was “caught out by his love of Stilton cheese,” Merseyside Police Detective Inspector Lee Wilkinson said, according to CBS News.
The police department said it has identified about 60,000 EncroChat users, many of whom used it for illegal activities.
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There have been more than 800 arrests in Europe as a result of the decryption, per the BBC.
