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Three men, including the brother of WWE wrestler Kurt Angle, received fines and probation instead of prison time for their roles in a steroid distribution operation involving vendor accounts on Alphabay, Dream, Empire Market, and others.

Sales on the Hydra darkweb marketplace decreased by 25% during the month of April, according to recent research on the impact of COVID-19 on the darkweb drug trade. The reason for the decline in drug use and purchases, according to some users, is ongoing lockdown measures in many regions.

Authorities arrested and charged a Michigan man for allegedly hacking the human resource database of a medical center, stealing the personally identifiable information of more than 65,000 employees, and selling the stolen data on the darkweb.

A Luxembourg police officer allegedly purchased potassium cyanide on the now-defunct Alphabay darkweb market. He used the poison to kill his sister and her husband, according to investigators.

A United States District Judge sentenced a man from Huntington, West Virginia, to 87 months in federal prison for attempting to receive almost a kilogram of methamphetamine through the United States Postal Service.

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Viken sentenced a South Dakota man to time served after he pleaded guilty to importing heroin and fentanyl purchased on the darkweb

The BitBazaar darkweb marketplace is exit scamming, according to users of the market as well as former BitBazaar staff members.

Investigators from the Hamburg Customs Investigation Office arrested one of the “top 20” darkweb vendors in Germany, according to a Customs press release. Authorities said the suspect shipped between 300 and 400 packages of drugs every week.