Ok, you're not understanding the idea here dude. If you are not talking in first person than there is no admission of anything. People can be, and are, convicted of crimes with no evidence other than an open admission of the crime or a third party accusation of the crime. So, thats great that you know a former narcotics officer or whatever, but this is still common sense. I was in federal prison with a guy from Arizona who was convicted of conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine. He was not caught with meth, nor a meth lab. He was not caught with a recipe either. He was convicted by one person in the court saying that he had spoken about making meth many times and that he "even saw the lab once". So basically he was convicted for having a meth recipe in his head. 7 years. Bam. It still boils down to pure common fucking sense. Who wants to admit openly to manufacturing a Schedule I substance. I would never do something like that, but if I did, I certainly wouldn't fucking admit it! That's just ridiculous.