“The stash house was fictional, those drugs never existed, and the brains behind the plot were not criminals, but federal agents. Dissenting judges argued that the practice of enticing poor young men into robbing stash houses raised questions not only of fair play, but also of constitutionality. The dissenters were particularly concerned that federal agents targeted primarily minority neighborhoods. According to USA Today, as of last year, the feds had already locked up more than a thousand people who its agents had enticed into conspiracies to rob fake drug stash houses. The defendants also got hit with longer sentences based on the imaginary amounts of drugs that were going to rob.”
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2014/may/30/operation_gideon_atf_raises_que