BOULDER, Colo. -- Boulder police have shut down a possible Ecstasy operation have being tipped by a federal agent to suspicious activity on eBay, the Boulder Daily Camera reported Wednesday.

The Camera said the agent, who scans the Internet looking for signs of purchases of materials that can be used to make drugs, informed Boulder police.

Twenty-nine-year-old Carl Dubois and 41-year-old Debra Cerio were arrested on suspicion of buying materials to make ecstasy.

Police raided their home last week and allegedly found enough material to manufacture 80,000 doses of the drug. They also found the email used to open a PayPal account to buy the material was freebasing@hotmail.com. Freebasing is a drug term.

Cerio said the couple is innocent. Friends said Dubois had the lab equipment because he's an aspiring chemical engineer.

Both posted bond and were released.

The newspaper story on the search and arrest was generating a large number of comments Wednesday. Some blamed law enforcement for invasion of the couple's privacy and others said that using a drug term in your e-mail address was not very smart.