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That might be my hand (not admitting it is), but that looks like frozen Greek yogurt.

Unless of course they can test for the presence of drugs in the photo, I'm not sure why they wasted their time. Whats the chain of evidence on the substance in the photo?

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I don't think the issue is the white stuff in the photo, he could be holding anything on the picture. The point is, through the picture they identified the person whose hand it was, used detective work to identify his gang, raided their properties, and found drugs...

And why did they "waste their time"? Because probably their chat was discussing their drug trade...

>Even though the image didn’t include his fingertips, forensic specialists were able to pull data from the rest of his fingers and palm and match it to fingerprints on the national database.

Read TFA, please.

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