Eric Angle, the brother of retired wrestler Kurt Angle, pleaded guilty to selling anabolic steroids on Alphabay, Dream, and Wall Street Market under under the username "qu4ntum." Other co-conspirators pleaded guilty to the same charge in addition to a related money laundering charge. Read More
Joanna De Alba sold heroin and methamphetamine on WallStreet Market under the username "RaptureReloaded," according to a recently unsealed indictment. DEA investigators, during an investigation into the darkweb vendor, learned that De Alba had shipped hundreds of packages to customers throughout the United States. Read More
Grey Market exit scammed. According to one of the market's administrators, a second administrator had emptied the cold storage wallets and vanished with the funds users had in escrow. The exit scam likely surprised only the market's most loyal fans. Read More
A New York District Court Judge granted a $1 million bail for Virgil Griffith, an Ethereum developer accused of violating economic sanctions by providing North Korea with information that "could be used to help North Korea launder money and evade sanctions." Read More
Binance temporarily suspended the account of a customer for withdrawing Bitcoin to Wasabi Wallet. The user had to provide their reason for using Wasabi and promise not to use any "gambling, P2P, [or] darknet/mixer sites." Read More
A former moderator of the now-defunct Tochka/Point Marketplace asked other former staff members to get in touch. The mod wrote that he had only returned to ask about the market's disappearance almost 30 days ago. Read More
A New York woman was sentenced to time served and one year of supervised release for attempting to hire a hitman on the darkweb to cripple her ex-boyfriend. Yanyan Lesser, 48, pleaded guilty one count of transmitting in interstate or foreign commerce a communication containing a threat to injure another person at a hearing in August 2019. Read More
In Bonn district court, a judge sentenced three members of a drug trafficking organization to suspended sentences and one to a prison sentence of 70 months. The defendants had distributed 1.3 million euros worth of marijuana and ecstasy to customers on darkweb markets, prosecutors revealed at a previous hearing. Read More
