In March, a court in Austria sentenced a dark web vendor to three years in prison for selling almost 70,000 counterfeit euro notes on various dark web marketplaces. The counterfeiter had previously admitted to charges of counterfeiting and money laundering. A spokesperson for the sentencing court in Leoben, Austria, announced that the case against one of the largest vendors of ... Read More »
A 30-year-old man from Rhein-Sieg District, Germany, was sentenced to three years and six months in prison for darknet drug trafficking in the Bonn District Court. The man began selling drugs on the darknet in 2012 at the age of 23 and managed to trade drugs worth millions of dollars. He allegedly sold ecstasy, amphetamine, cocaine, marijuana, and LSD strips ... Read More »
According to an announcement by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Western District of New York, a 31-year-old man from Elmira who, with a co-conspirator, headed an opioid dark web trafficking ring was sentenced to 17 years and six months in federal prison. The sentence was issued after the man was found guilty of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute ... Read More »
A 32-year-old inmate from Lexington, Kentucky, was sentenced to 43 years federal imprisonment on Monday for attempting to purchase a bomb over the dark web. The prisoner, known as Michael Young, purchased the bomb over the internet from his prison cell and arranged for it to be delivered to a certain address in Florida via mail. FBI reports show that ... Read More »
A 20-year-old college student is set to spend ten years behind bars for stealing cryptocurrencies worth more than $5 million. The 20-year-old pleaded guilty to charges levied against him and accepted a 10-year sentence as part of the plea deal. According to an announcement by the prosecuting attorney, the judge in charge of the case deemed the plea deal reasonable. ... Read More »
A 35-year-old man from Georgia was sentenced to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy of drug trafficking. The man allegedly ordered fentanyl for resale over the dark web and had the fentanyl delivered via mail. DEA agents arrested him outside of a post office after his attempt of retrieving a fentanyl package failed. After the arrest, ... Read More »
A software engineer from Geldern, Germany, was sentenced to seven years in prison after he was found guilty of darknet drug trafficking. The 37-year-old man had told the court that he engaged in the illicit sale of drugs to help his cousin. In passing the sentence, the court determined that the man sold cannabis and its products through the darknet ... Read More »
A software engineer from Edinburgh, Scotland, will spend the next five years behind bars after pleading guilty to having purchased a handgun, silencer, and ammunition over the dark web. The Scottish engineer allegedly paid for the weapon using bitcoin and arranged for the package to be delivered to his place of work. The attempt of 48 year old David Mitchell ... Read More »
A German court sentenced the owner of one of most prolific dark web forums in Germany to six years in prison for allowing the sale of firearms on the forum. A judge held him accountable for several homicides and assaults connected to the forum. A 31-year-old from Karlsruhe was identified as the owner of the German dark web forum, “Germany ... Read More »
A man from Iowa, who ordered more than a kilogram of methamphetamine on the dark web, was sentenced to ten years in prison followed by another five years of supervised release. Officials claimed that the man had been ordering drugs to resell locally at the time of his arrest. United States District Court Judge Linda R. Reade sentenced a man ... Read More »
Prosecutors in the case of the Munich, Karlsruhe killing spree in 2016 have submitted an application before court demanding a jail sentence of more than nine years for a suspect linked to the incidence. The defendant, in this case, was arrested for selling firearms suspected to have been used in the killings. He is also facing an extra charge for ... Read More »
A prolific MDMA and LSD dealer from Tennessee was sentenced to federal prison at a recent hearing in a federal court. The dealer was known to both law enforcement officers and to his customers as “Molly Poppins.” At the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, Judge Travis McDonough sentenced Graham Clark, also known as “Molly Poppins,” ... Read More »
A Swedish man is set to spend the next six and a half years behind bars after he was found guilty of attempted murder on account of sending a letter bomb to a London based bitcoin firm. The police believe that the man sent the bomb to two employees of the bitcoin firm as a reaction to the firm’s failure ... Read More »
In Kane County a man was sentenced to 12 years in prison after he was found guilty of identity theft and bank fraud. United States District Judge Sue E. Myerscough sentenced the 25-year-old following his involvement in defrauding some Springfield merchants over $600,000. Keith JD Offord of Carpentersville was found guilty of the charges against him by a jury in ... Read More »
No less than one week ago after being found guilty of operating a successful darkweb drug trafficking operation, a 33-year-old from the district of Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen in Bavaria was sentenced to eight years in prison during a sentencing hearing at the Ansbach District Court. Over the course of roughly one year, the convicted drug dealer sold more than 30 kilograms of ... Read More »
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