February 16, 2019
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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 »
February 11, 2019
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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 »
January 28, 2019
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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 »
January 13, 2019
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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 »
January 8, 2019
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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 »
December 30, 2018
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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 »
December 22, 2018
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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 »
November 29, 2018
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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 »
November 12, 2018
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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 »
October 31, 2018
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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 »
October 21, 2018
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The darkweb drug vendor OxyMonster was sentenced to 20 years in prison in a Florida courtroom in early October. The court heard that OxyMonster both sold controlled substances on several darkweb markets and worked as a senior staff member on one of the most popular markets in existence. Gal Vallerius, a 36-year-old French national who had entered the United States ... Read More »
October 20, 2018
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A university student was sentenced to over six years by Judge Roderick Henderson of Birmingham Crown Court, after he pleaded guilty to the charges of attempted possession of a firearm, possession of a restricted firearm and possession of articles of fraud. The charges against 23-year-old Assan Hussain stemmed from his failed attempt of importing an automatic pistol and 50 rounds ... Read More »
October 1, 2018
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In late September, a U.S. District Judge in California sentenced a darkweb firearm supplier to five years in prison for unlawfully dealing and manufacturing firearms. The gun dealer signed a plea agreement in June that dropped a second firearm charge in exchange for the plea. U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. sentenced Michael Paul Grisham Smith, 44, to five ... Read More »
September 3, 2018
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According to investigators at the Department of Drug Trafficking at the Federal Criminal Police Office, a young man living in Lower Austria controlled several dark web vendor accounts and distributed drugs throughout Austria and “half of Europe.” The man, unemployed and living at his mother’s house, had earned more than 300,000 euros through the drug trade. The Federal Criminal Police ... Read More »
August 31, 2018
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On August 14, 2018, U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced a former United States Postal Service employee to seven years in prison for distributing heroin, buprenorphine, and cocaine on the darkweb. The man, last May, admitted that he had been operating a dark web vendor account on the Dream marketplace for roughly one year. Although the man’s heroin led ... Read More »