Merged [Ed] Get involved detecting the ade 651 detector / Jim McCormick arrested

Great news! I (along with a thousand or so other people :)) heard it from Bruce Hood yesterday; he shortened his talk at TAM so he could fit in an update at the end.
 
Glad to hear it was mentioned at TAM. :)

Even if there is still work to do, it is a rare chance to taste victory in an otherwise slow fight against the seemingly endless tide of crooks willing to sell these dowsing rods. Ripping off treasure hunters is bad enough, but these rods sold to the police and military have cost hundreds of lives.
 
Two things to add...for now anyway

You know me by now! There'll be more.

1. Biff. You are right! We must celebrate where we are today, nearly four years after we started the FEDC.. The FEDS Ho Ho!!

BUT! If anyone has not yet sent Techowiz a personal congratulatory message then please do!!! He has suffered more than I can tell you to see this through!

I want you all to know that he deserves a JREF Medal and more. However, I also know he will be relut ant to accept any honours at all! So personal messages of support would be lovely.

I cannot tell you every detail for reasons of personal confidentiality. I do hope some of you, like me, will have the honour of sharing a drink witth him in future. He doesn't even like you buying him a drink, he is such a good man he always wants to get them in. So, I toast Techo! And I sincerely hope you will too!

Whatever others more famous have achieved in this, the case would be nowhere without him! NOWHERE!

2. I am writing a piece on my blog about a big missing link. This missing link requires no fossils. But is a part of the evolution of the fake detectors fraud. Intrigued? I hope so! Some of the players are still alive, but as yet unidentified. Anyone want to help now? You can all do more! haven't a few of us proved that!/

Finally, for now, let me assure some skeptics in the skeptic community. Hoppy made a difference! More than you will ever know! But only because Techo persuaded Hoppy to Hop!!!

Bye for now.

Ribbit Ribbit!!
 
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If you can get Techowiz to TAM 11, I will get him a JREF medal if I have to smelt and forge it myself. Plus I will make good on my offer of several rounds of the beverages of your choice to everyone who has posted in this thread over the past few years. [that should keep this bumped up to the top, right? :) ]

I look forward to reading about the missing link!
 
If we can we will

get him to TAM11.

In meatime, thanks for the thoughts BIFF.

Glad some people take an interest! One aspect of this that was always amazing to me was how tough it was to get people to sit up and take notice of this story.

I mean, I know Bigfoot is important but it always amazes me that a Bigfoot thread would attract more attention than this. Anyway. That;'s Life as they say! And as long as there are guys like Techo around to have a drink with, we''ll muddle on!

All best to all who have taken an interest!
 
Latest court appearances

18 July 2012

The following attended City of London Magistrates Court yesterday.

Gary Bolton - GT200. Deferred a plea awaiting sight of prosecution files. September Bail date.

Simon Sherrard - ALPHA6. Plead Not Guilty. September Bail Date.

Sam Tree and Joan Tree - Quadro Tracker/MOLE/GT200/ALPHA6. Plead Not Guilty. September bail Date.

Anthony Williamson - XK9. Plead Not Guilty. September Bail Date.

Further info as possible.

All best.

DD
 
LATEST ON McCORMICK - ADE651

We are waiting for more details, but it appears McCormick was released on bail on Friday 13th July. He had been remanded in custody on 11 July when charged at City of London Magistrates Court.

We understand McCormick made a rather staged attempt to support his original bail application by holding up proceedings while he left the Court to take medicine.

We understand he made a special application for bail to a Judge in Chambers, and that this was granted. We guessed this might happen after Gary Bolton, Simon Sherrard, Sam Tree, Joan Tree and Anthony Williamson were granted bail on 12/7 when they were charged over other variants of the fraud (see previous posts).

It is a shame that McCormick is in a position to hire an expensive lawyer, and to get out of jail before his trial. Still, life now will be a lot less comfortable, and we assume stringent bail conditions have been imposed on a man who almost certainly salted money away from the ADE651 sales in various places around the World (again, see previous posts).
 
Please Support Andres Tonini in Mexico

Some of you who have been following the story of the fake detectors will have heard of Andres Tonini. Andres has been valliantly battling to end the use of the GT200, the ADE651 and the ALPHA6 in Mexico.

If anyone has any contacts in Mexico who may be able to support his campaign that would be marvellous!

You can find his blog at (pLease note it is in Spanish).

http://lonjho.blogspot.co.uk/
 
Latest news from mexico

I recently received the following emaol from Andres Tonini in Mexico. Please support Andres in any way you can.

EMAIL FROM ANDRES

Hello.

There are not significant advances.

If well the Senate finally aproved a exhort to ask to the President to "gather opinions and evaluations of research institutions and the scientific community interested can bring about the effectiveness and proper functioning of molecular detectors GT200, acquired by the Mexican government", his answer is completely voluntary. So, I don´t think anything will change soon.

http://www.senado.gob.mx/index.php?ver=sp&mn=2&sm=2&id=15123&lg=61

By the way, here's a picture of Felipe Calderón, the mexican president, watching the magic wand: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gobbc/5164515138/

And in my blog you can read a couple of phrases he has said about the GT200: http://lonjho.blogspot.mx/2012/06/el-detector-molecular-gt200-un-emblema.html

About the charges against Bolton, McCormick and friends, well, until this day only two media mentioned the case. Yes, only two: a local newspaper and one who are only available on Internet. No main newspaper, radio and of course no TV station said a word on this. And If these two did it it's because the first note's author ha's been interested on the subject from time ago, and the second because, was alerted by some collegues by Twitter (along many other media and journalists which at best gave a retweet, or, as mostly did, just ignored it):

http://www.zocalo.com.mx/seccion/op...los-fabricantes-de-los-detectores-moleculares
http://www.reporteindigo.com/reporte/mexico/detector-de-mentiras

The military and local governments continue using these devices with no shame, of course:

http://lonjho.blogspot.mx/2012/05/francisco-manuel-cordova-celaya-exhibe.html
http://lonjho.tumblr.com/post/26962014091/fuente-aseguran-auto-con-armamento-abc-de
http://lonjho.tumblr.com/post/28648210109/hoy-domingo-inicia-la-segunda-campana-de-canje-de
http://lonjho.blogspot.mx/2012/01/pistolas-moleculares-en-culiacan.html

I found a note mentioning some "molecular detector" has been using by mexican customs, however, I can´t say is the GT200 or ADE651. Anyway, here is:

http://lonjho.tumblr.com/post/28582732330/las-principales-49-aduanas-del-pais-han-sido

As you can imagine, we aren't exactly happy.

Finally and for your archives, here's a new iteration of the ADE650: behold the ADE680:

http://www.888858888.com/en/product_view.asp?id=66

EMAIL ENDS


May I suggest bombarding your local Mexican Embassy/Consulate with emails. I have just sent the following to the Mexican Embassy in London:

[email protected]

FAKE EXPLOSIVES DETECTORS

We understand that various so called detectors e.g. GT200, ADE651 and ALPHA 6 are still in use in Mexico, despite widespread publicity and warnings that these devices cannot and do not work.

The sellers of the GT200, ADE651 and ALPHA 6 have all been arrested and charged with fraud in the U.K.

It is incredible that anyone still uses these devices!

We urge you to join the calls to end the use of these devices immediately.

Yours sincerely,
Peter Robinson
The Fake Explosives Detectors Campaign
 
commandlinegamer said:
So who's manufacturing these, then?

Could it be a Chinese counterfeit of a device which is a fake anyway? The mind boggles...
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ADE680 long-range explosives detector is a new portable screening devices. It can be dense crowd in the direction that the location of prohibited items for inspectors looking for prohibited goods to provide a great convenience. Britain's New Year by the professional development of its equipped with a variety of different types of contraband samples in order to make it applicable to different countries and regions. It's a very high sensitivity, detection range of up to 68 0 meters. Security sector is an ideal long-range detector. According to the needs of users and research and development of different samples of contraband, is now endemic in China for the development of black powder samples, in order to provide maximum security facilities.

ADE680 long-range detection of explosives used to detect explosives in a particular area and to determine whether its position that it can be Wall, a variety of metals, concrete, container seals, containers, vacuum bottles, soil, frozen layer of material, such as positioning. Detection range up to 680 m, can carry explosives and chemical and biological detection. SIM cards can be a variety of custom greatly to reduce the search time for exploration of the region . detectable material:
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I wonder if the manual is as clear as that description above. (direct quote from the website and not a google translation.)
 
Excellent! I hope the news media pick up on this - BBC's Newsnight did a fraud report some while back, maybe they'd like to follow up on it...
 
We wait and hope!

Now we just have to hope that the outcomes of the trials are the correct ones! Shame we have to wait till next year, but since we started the UK campaign back in 2008, and thought it would be all over quickly, guess a few more Months on tenterhooks is just about bearable.

Both McCormick and Bolton have hired heavy hitting Q.C. Barristers at what will be considerable cost estimated at potentially between £500 000 and £1 million each. If they are convicted, raises interesting questions regarding lawyers profiting from the proceeds of crimes!
 
Dubious Dick said:
Now we just have to hope that the outcomes of the trials are the correct ones! Shame we have to wait till next year, but since we started the UK campaign back in 2008, and thought it would be all over quickly, guess a few more Months on tenterhooks is just about bearable.

Both McCormick and Bolton have hired heavy hitting Q.C. Barristers at what will be considerable cost estimated at potentially between £500 000 and £1 million each. If they are convicted, raises interesting questions regarding lawyers profiting from the proceeds of crimes!
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Do you have any legislation about seizing the proceeds of crime? If so how much money did they make and do they have enough assets to pay the lawyers?
 
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