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A 63-year-old man was arrested in Utah years after he was charged with crimes related to selling a fake cure for the coronavirus, officials said Monday.

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[-] OttoVonBizmarkie@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

Can't wait for his Mormon neighbors to come out and defend him as a pillar of the church and community!

[-] negativenull@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago
[-] radix@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Happened when the president of the seminary I attended was caught with a 16 year old.

Wildly I actually have met this guy and he was super nice, great kids, but was involved in a handful of snake oil like products including colloidal silver even a decade ago.

[-] Buffaloaf@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

According to court documents, Gordon Hunter Pedersen, 63, sold a "structural alkaline silver" product online that he allegedly said "resonates or vibrates at a frequency that destroys the membrane of the (COVID-19) virus, making the virus incapable" of infecting someone.

I would like to know what the fuck "structural alkaline" means and how you make it with silver.

[-] remotelove@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 year ago

It's probably just colloidal silver. By using a battery and couple of silver wire electrodes, you can turn water blue. (Blue is the color of magic, btw.)

[-] Bonesince1997@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

Sick dude selling poison. Enjoy the cell.

[-] dudinax@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

This guy has a shot at getting the republican nomination.

[-] gassygiant@discuss.online 1 points 1 year ago

Nah, he’s too young.

He was arrested in Utah County, officials said. The news release, shared on Monday, did not say when he was arrested or how he was taken into custody.

Guarantee they only found him because of a traffic stop.

I swear to god if you could avoid getting into a private vehicle you could skate free for the rest of your life and no one would ever catch you.

Law enforcement in this country is fucking pathetic.

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago

I'm wondering how, in today's age, a manhunt could take up to three years. Either he's great at flying under the radar or the hunters aren't very tenacious.

[-] madcaesar@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's the dichotomy of the world we live in and I struggle to fully comprehend.

We are tracked, recorded monitored constantly, yet dickheads like this take 3 years to catch.. I don't get it. It's not like he was living alone in the woods.

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Because the monitoring isn't being done to benefit society, but marketing agencies.

Because in both instances there are rich people making money and neither one are interested in providing a service to the public.

Because cops are mouth breathing retards. ALL cops, even federal ones.

The VAST VAST VAST majority of wanted criminals are arrested in traffic stops.

Cops are just as bad at their jobs as they are for the safety and peace of humanity.

[-] embrcrndm@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They just bumped into him at Trader Joe's

[-] Falafels@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The link goes to a 5 second, mute video for me for some reason, but going by the thumbnail, isn't that the same stuff that turned this guy blue?

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