Seattle Drug Ring Busted by DEA Used Burner Cell Phones, Talked in Code Like Characters From The Wire
In one episode of the dearly departed HBO series The Wire, Baltimore police struggle to crack a code that dope dealers are using to do business, causing a detective to wonder, "How complex a code can it be if these knuckleheads are using it?" Now it seems a real life version of that situation unfolded in Seattle as the DEA eavesdropped on the phone conversations of a drug kingpin and his henchmen.![]()

































