A 21-year-old German man accused of using the darknet to acquire drugs for resale was sentenced to only two weeks in a youth detention center. The defendant who had been previously convicted of theft and destruction of property appeared before Judge Markus Nikol in the Ebersberg District Court and remained silent throughout the hearing. The sentence was issued based on ... Read More »
A judge at the Kleve District Court sentenced three defendants for selling hundreds of kilograms of marijuana and hashish through Dream Market to customers throughout Germany. During sentencing, one of the defendants called the drug trafficking operation the “biggest mistake he had ever made.” The sentencing hearing marked the end of a case that began in March 2018. Investigators of ... Read More »
A university drop-out was sentenced to prison in a Liverpool court for operating Silk Road 2.0 under the pseudonym Dread Pirate Roberts 2 (DPR2). The National Crime Agency in the United Kingdom announced that Thomas White, 24, a former student at Liverpool John Moores University, was sentenced to five years and four months in prison for operating the second Silk ... Read More »
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 24-year-old man hailing from Bad Hersfeld has been convicted and sentenced for being in possession of a huge amount of narcotics. He is said to have acquired the drugs via the darknet. Following his own confession, the Schöffengericht chaired by Judge Silvia Reidit arrived at the verdict despite a plea from defense lawyer Harald Ermel. Attorney Dr. Christine Seban ... 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 »
Orange County’s Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse has sentenced a man to prison for surfing the dark web to purchase a machine gun. Hamid Kadir, a former translator of the Australian Special Force, was not off the hook after he pleaded guilty to the charges. His arrest was orchestrated by an undercover agent mandated to patrol the dark side of the ... 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 »
Two Men that Manufactured and Sold Counterfeit Xanax Through the Dark Web Sentenced BY: CASHCARD Two men were sentenced in the Hartford Federal Court for their roles in the manufacture and distribution of counterfeit Xanax and anabolic steroids via the dark web. One of the men, believed to be the mastermind of the entire operation, was sentenced to 20 months ... Read More »
Two men were sentenced in the Hartford Federal Court for their roles in the manufacture and distribution of counterfeit Xanax and anabolic steroids via the dark web. One of the men believed to be the mastermind of the entire operation was sentenced to 20 months in prison while his accomplice was given a 3-year probation sentence. The pair allegedly admitted ... Read More »
The admin to what was once the largest Finnish dark web marketplace was sentenced to 40 months in prison after a court found him guilty of facilitating drug trafficking through his site. The 45-year-old IT expert is believed to have been responsible for the creation and maintenance of the dark web site, Sipulikanava, from March 2014 to 2017. The site ... Read More »
A 23-year-old man from Napier, New Zealand, was sentenced to home detention after he was found guilty of three counts of importing ecstasy ordered through the dark web. Like the majority of those who purchase illicit items through the dark web, he was arrested after customs authorities intercepted two of his drug packages. He allegedly ordered the drugs on behalf ... 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 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 48 year old Scottish man has been convicted of three firearms related charges and sentenced to 5 years in prison by the High Court in Edinburgh for trying to buy and import a gun from the darknet. David Mitchell of Damside, Edinburgh, pleaded guilty to the three criminal firearms charges that had been filed against him after he was ... Read More »
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