But allegedly BL didn’t have a mobile phone at this point?
I am kind of facepalming that I had not thought about this before. If it is true that he ditched his old phone and purchased a new phone on September 4, he may have had a different number…unless he just ditched the device. IF the idea were to communicate with less chance of surveillance, it wouldn’t make sense to just buy a new device but keep the same number IMO
In addition, just ditching a device is not going to destroy an electronic trail. Theoretically, one could get a new line, and new device, and set up an entire new account to attempt to disassociate with the old one, but much of the activity from that phone would be recoverable, even in the absence of that specific device. MOOing