https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/13/dea_cracked_blackberry_smartphones/

Back in 2013, Canadian John Darrel Krokos got 11.5 years in a US jail for leading a massive cocaine smuggling ring. Two years later, his colleague Zaid Wakil was given a 20-year sentence.

What was unique about their cases – and another 20 people also taken down in the investigation by the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) – was how they had been caught: through cracked phones.