The Latest: News from the Underworld
US-Student gets prison sentence for reselling darknet drugs
A University of Chester student was sentenced to prison after purchasing drugs on the dark web and selling them locally. Gayan Aponsu, a 22-year-old University of Chester student, was sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to two counts of importing class A and...
Former Dream Market vendor "FatSam" avoids jail time
Instead of prison time, a judge in the United Kingdom sentenced a Dream Market vendor to time served and community service. Mohammed Ghani, who has a Manchester address, previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide a controlled substance in class C, conspiracy...
DisrupTor: Darknet Drug Dealer sentenced to 6 years.
The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas stated that as part of operation DisrupTor, a darkweb cocaine and heroin trafficker was sentenced to 6 years in federal prison for drug conspiracy. Aaron Brewer, 39, pled guilty in December to conspiracy to...
German woman charged for employing a murder-for-hire
The Dresden Public Prosecutor's Office has brought charges against a 41-year-old German woman before the Dresden Regional Court - Jury Court. The defendant is charged with attempted incitement to murder. The accused is accused of having ordered the murder of the new...
Customs investigators bust German Firearms Dealer
Investigators from the Customs Investigation Office in Frankfurt am Main have seized a large number of prohibited items, including a total of 13 firearms, 1,361 pieces of cartridge ammunition, several brass knuckles, a butterfly knife, a steel rod and 80 prohibited...
Two Austrians Sentenced for Darknet Amphetamine Sales
Since they were seven years old, the two now 28- and 27-year-old friends from the Unterland region of Switzerland have been thick as thieves and have now been sentenced for trading amphetamine on the dark web. Having grown up together in the same housing estate, they...
Austrian Citizen Arrested for Darknet Drug Purchases
Authorities in Upper Austria have detained a man accused of importing drugs bought on the dark web. The Wels criminal police arrested a 43-year-old man from Wels for reportedly acquiring huge quantities of methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin on the darkweb, according...
South Korea: 500 Arrested for Selling Ketamine
More than 500 persons were seized by the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency on suspicion of buying or selling ketamine and other drugs on the darkweb. According to a press release from the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, Seoul police have investigated 521 people...
Darknet Drug Dealer "PerpetualEuphoria" sentenced to 5 years
Acting US Attorney Tessa M. Gorman announced today that a 31-year-old ‘dark web' heroin dealer that used the handle "PerpetualEuphoria" was sentenced to 5 years in prison in US District Court in Seattle. After a horrible assault on his estranged girlfriend, Zachary...
Australian Sentenced to 14 years for darknet drug operations
For masterminding a dark web drug trafficking organisation that sold drugs worth nearly $17 million, an Australian man was sentenced to more than a decade in prison. After pleading guilty to various narcotics trafficking counts, Cody Ward, 27, of New South Wales, was...