The Latest: News from the Underworld
Yellow Brick Market Disappears
As darknet customers around the globe are complaining, Yellow Brick Market, has vanished from the Internet. Currently it is an open question whether this is an exit scam or if those those involved are being prosecuted by law enforcement. For long periods of time, the...
British Online cannabis Dealers face up to 10 years in prison
For their involvement in a large-scale cannabis and other drug trafficking activity, four Northampton men were sentenced to a combined total of more than 34 years in prison. Vladislavs Cvirkovics, 28, Filip Hmelnicenko, 31, Denis Potapenko, 28, and Edgars Pirants, 32,...
Darknet selling Meth-Producer pleads guilty
This week, a Virginia man pleaded guilty to conspiracy to manufacture 500 grammes or more of a methamphetamine-detectable mixture and drug. According to court records, Dat Nguyen, 35, conspired to distribute peach tablets marketed as Adderall, but actually containing...
Silk Road Dealer "Shabang" Sentenced to Eight Months
The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Audrey Strauss, announced today that Michael Weigand, aka "Shabang" was sentenced today to eight months in prison for making false claims to federal agents about his role in the online illegal black...
26 year old German Darknet Drug Dealer Stands Trial
The indictment is long: a 26-year-old man from Achern is charged with a total of 32 crimes, including the distribution of narcotics. He is alleged to have had contact with a gang that sold drugs via the darknet. There he ordered drugs and then resold them for profit...
Chemicals Seller based in Arizona Sentenced to Probation
An Arizona man was sentenced to five years of probation by a federal judge for selling research chemicals online. Jeremy Brooks, 31, was sentenced to five years of probation by United States District Judge Arthur J. Schwab for one count of conspiracy to smuggle...
Sipulimarket Seized by Finish Authorities
The Finnish Customs (Tulli) today shut down the dark web marketplace of Sipuli Market and confiscated all its content. In close collaboration with the Polish Regional Police Headquarters in Wroclaw (Komenda Wojewódzka Policji we Wroclawiu) and Europol's European...
German Charged for Distributing Child Pornography
The public prosecutor's office in Dresden has brought a charge against a 38-year-old German at the regional court in Dresden - youth chamber as a court for the protection of minors - among other things because of ganglike distribution of child pornographic writings...
Austrian Waiter Gets Jail Sentence For Buying Counterfeit Money
He was obviously bored in the March lockdown - and as a waiter, his income had also dried up. So the Tyrolean-by-choice had the idea of ordering and passing on counterfeit money in Darknet (encrypted network). The fraud was discovered and it took extenuating...
Firebomb Plotters Sentenced to Combined Over 23 Years in Prison
Today, for their respective positions in a conspiracy to use explosives for firebombing and kill a rival pharmacy, a Maryland Darknet seller and a Nebraska pharmacist were sentenced to a combined prison term of over 23 years. According to court records, the...