Four Sentenced for Selling on Alphabay

~3 min read | Published on 2019-08-27, tagged AlphabayDarkweb-VendorSentenced using 732 words.

A court in Phoenix, Arizona, sentenced four defendants to varying prison sentences for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and conspiracy to launder proceeds from drug distribution. They operated the vendor account “Iceman21” on several darkweb marketplaces, including Alphabay, Dream, and Hansa Market.
Senior U.S. District Judge James A. Teilborg most recently sentenced the last defendant, Kevin Dean McCoy, 28, of Tucson, Arizona, to 15 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and launder proceeds from drug distribution. McCoy had previously pleaded guilty to both charges. His co-defendants, including his fiance, previously pleaded guilty to the same charges in connection with the same darkweb drug trafficking conspiracy.
Silvester Ruelas, his primary co-conspirator, received a 15-year prison sentence. His fiance, Amber Worrell received a 10-year prison sentence. Peggy Gomez, received a 5-year prison sentence. The defendants all pleaded guilty to the same crimes and included the details of the operation in their guilty pleas. The plea agreements filed in Arizona District Court identified the co-conspirators and the role each co-conspirator played in the drug trafficking operation.
Acting Inspector in Charge Jessica Wagner of the United States Postal Inspection Service, during sentencing, said the following:
This investigation once again showcases the excellent collaboration between the United States Postal Inspection Service and other law enforcement agencies. Through these partnerships, we continue working to keep our communities safe from the spread of illegal narcotics purchased through the dark web. We continue to challenge the anonymous nature of the dark web, proving time and again you are never truly anonymous.

McCoy admitted that he–along with his co-conspirators–had operated a darkweb vendor account under the name “Iceman21” from 2015 until his arrest in 2017. Using the Iceman21 account on Alphabay, Hansa, and Dream Market, McCoy and his co-conspirators sold more than one kilogram of heroin, more than 500 grams of methamphetamine, and more than 500 grams of cocaine.

McCoy Admitted Using Banks Accounts Owned by His Co-Conspirators


According to the information provided in the plea agreement, McCoy opened the first Iceman21 account on a darkweb market in June 2015. He admitted acting as the drug trafficking organization’s primary conspirator. After opening the Iceman21 account, McCoy opened an account on Localbitcoins.com under the username Bitman90. He admitted using the Localbitcoins.com account to launder the proceeds of the drug trafficking organization into accounts operated by his co-conspirators under fictitious business names.

The Localbitcoins Account Set Up by McCoy


I was also the primary member who created the Bitman90 profile on localbitcoins.com to sell the bitcoin proceeds from the Darknet drug sales in exchange for fiat U.S. Currency. I instructed individuals purchasing the bitcoin to make cash deposits for the bitcoin into bank accounts opened by Peggy Gomez and Sylvester Ruelas on behalf of the DTO. My fiance Amber Nicole Worrell helped me operate the Iceman21 vendor pages on the Darknet to operate the Darknet vendor pages so she could further the goals of the 1ceman21 DTO. I instructed her how to operate the Darknet and to purchase shipping and storage supplies for the drugs. Our goal was to be efficient, make more money and grow the Iceman21 DTO.

The criminal complaint is sealed. The only relevant information about the information was provided by the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the District of Arizona and McCoy’s plea agreement.
Authorities revealed that during the investigation, the United States Postal Inspection Service seized parcels containing illegal drugs that were en route to Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and other states. Federal investigators conducted undercover purchases from Iceman21. The undercover purchases included one for less than two grams of methamphetamine, one for less than two grams of heroin, and one for 2.6 grams of cocaine.
The United States Postal Inspection Service seized 34 packages during the investigation. Federal agents seized a total of 10.9 grams of cocaine, 119.6 grains of heroin, and 22.7 grams of methamphetamine from those intercepted parcels. McCoy admitted that–through the Iceman21 accounts on three darkweb marketplaces–he had distributed a total of 1,475 grams of cocaine, 4,860 grams of heroin, and 3,187 grams of methamphetamine on three different marketplaces on the darkweb under the vendor name Iceman21.
McCoy agreed to forfeit dozens of firearms, gold bars, jewelry, and $15,000 in cash as part of his plea deal.
The investigation was led by the Drug Enforcement Administration; Homeland Security Investigations; Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigations; and the United States Postal Inspection Service.
Archived Press Release

Comments (57)


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NooTropics2022-06-12
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dfgafga2022-06-12
ecd46730

Tianeptine is a legitimate antidepressant approved in Europe over a decade ago. It is objectively effective as an antidepressant and abuse/addiction is genuinely quite rare when taken at the prescribed dose (12.5mg 3x daily). Although it's possible the impetus for this investigation/sentence was something other than legitimate tianeptine, the article certainly suggests that's what it was about. It's unfortunate that this appears to be criminal charges related to the sale of drugs genuinely intended for therapeutic use, for which there exists substantial evidence of their safety.

Hjh2022-06-12
023efc50

This is just getting sad. Feds should be embarrassed fucking clowns

CaptainObvious2022-06-12
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Etizolam has also had a long history of acceptance and safety in EU, and abroad. I believe it in the end it all has to do with USA didn't get their cut. Regulation is crazy world wide. Remember, it was the USA that wanted every nation to do its best to stop Ketamine production. Also legal limits are wide different. In the end, it is not about our safety, it is about money. “outside the secure supply chain can present a serious health risk to those who use them. The drugs may contain unknown or dangerous ingredients and are manufactured under unknown or unregulated conditions,” said Special Agent in Charge Charles L. Grinstead, FDA Office of Criminal Investigations Kansas City Field Office” < Evidence

Witch hunt2022-06-12
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A witch hunt where they oddly enough caught the witch…

nan232022-06-13
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HarmReduction2022-06-13
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Part 1: Regarding policy of USA about "how to protect the population against drugs danger", in this case regarding opioid pandemic - combined with the results how effective was USA Gov brainwashing propaganda that even Darknet markets admins banned fentanyl listings (even the original pharma fentanyl patches) - Please take two minutes to read this if you live in USA and you are not an Opioid User, you will find definitely interesting the insane difference between how opioid addicted and especially people with chronic pain who never had interest for recreational drugs usage, are now risking every day their lives, thanks to USA Gov and DNM Admins "Harm Prevention" campaign.

HarmPrevention2022-06-13
cf4641f0

Part2: Yes, drugs is dead drugs is killing. Yes, nobody denies that Opioids are causing a physical and psychological addiction lot harder to handle. And "casual usage" is difficult if not impossible. But let's talk for a second about why such drugs class is just anywhere in the world. First, because a huge number of people NEED this family to have a normal life, living a daily hell without them. Second, because despite is true the addiction is inevitable, it is a class that can be taken even lifetime, with just minor side-effects, IF taken in a responsible way, and unlike most people think, many Opioids are euphoric/stimulants, not just putting you on the floor like a zombie. There are lot more people who die smoking cigarettes getting cancer, or drinking alchool and driving, than overdosing. But you are right, having such addiction will make your life very complicated, especially if you can't get proper help from rehab center. But the choice what to put in your body is yours.

HarmPrevention2022-06-13
ef1574f0

Part3: I get to the point. All this campaign of TERROR against Fentanyl and analogues, has to be done because USA Gov started it all! Allowing all those "Pain managements centers" (and Gov just did nothing), causing half continent to become addicted. Then, first act of "aggressive repression" - no more painkillers. Not even for people who even before were getting them for their chronic pain! So, people started to seek alternatives - Fentanyl. That obviously without knowing how to dose it properly, or where illegal production offered to dealers a "even better income" creating synth heroin - cause first wave of Death.

dashdsahjkdsakdk2022-06-13
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^ god DAMN this is the internet crazy ramblings I come here for!

HarmReduction2022-06-13
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Part 4: And now the laughable part. The terror campaign against Fenta, and especially chinese companies for YEARS selling fentanyl analogues (most of them were ever lower than pure fentanyl, 15x or such), some of course strong - but even here, it was already too late - you forbid access to all other lower potency meds, remember? - most drugs buyer online, could at least get their products and receive exactly what expected, knowing how to use it. People who died for overdose was mostly heroin users buyin it on streets, fenta-cut heroin where clearly taking the same dosage thinking was the same potency, could easily cause an overdose. Usa gov solution: let's ask china to STOP all production and BAN all fentanyl analogue. Problem solved? No, this was a huge fuck up. Especially when few weeks before, FDA approved Sufentanyl, 10x stronger than normal Fentanyl..

HarmPrevention2022-06-13
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Part5: And here the true fuckup started. You can't stop a pandemic and such insane request of people with such tolerance. Especially when your rehab center are not offering the proper support, and considering addicted just junkies without respecting them and offering proper solutions, both pharmaceutical and psychiatric cures. Mexican cartels jumped in, bringing in the streets a lot of violence, and shipping daily in USA airplanes empy of passengers, but full of tons of Car-f and Fentanyl - but all made in illegal labs, unpolished synth, and who knows about the cut, before arriving in the streets. So buyers, who before your "harm prevention mitigation" could just buy from home safe compounds, had to deal not only with violence in the streets, but as well with a totally random unknown potency. Situation On DNMs got even worst: countless scammers pretending to have pure Fentanyl HCL. So many scammers, and Synth heroin sold as Heroin, that THIS is the reason why Admins banned fent.

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97sad789asd789da2022-06-13
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^ holy shit this nutter can type 217 WPM, my govt issue IBM model M is getting gummy trying to catch up!

HarmPrevention2022-06-13
e692c730

Part6: When you think that the worst has gone, it isn't at all! Let's recap: USA gov caused this whole mess, chinese didn't want to give up the good business, so they created a new class of Opioids - but mainstream media started only few months a go talking about them - that were sold in the last year and half (before were sold only to "trusted" customer) ON -CLEARNET SHOPS- with a potency up to 300x! SIX times stronger than Fentanyl! WITH A FEW MOUSE CLICKS. The waves of Death caused cannot be calculated. But at least, Addicted were able to "what you buy is what you get", from home, pure powder and they could just use them in a safe way with volumetric dosage. DNMs kept banned fent, but not such super-stronger opioids - that lead the addicted (and chronic pain patient) to destroy their tolerance. Scheduled in usa only FEW MONTHS a go, now addicted won't feel even Pure Fentanyl, since those Opioid destroyed the tolerance. AND THEY PUT FOCUS ON NOOTROPICs SELLERS? Fuck logic :D (END)

HarmPrevention2022-06-13
3c04dcd0

LoL, thanks for my anonymous followers and LE for attention, now try to fix this huge mess your gov triggered a decade a go :D

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HarmPrevention2022-06-13
5df1b520

(ffs, part 6 truc - "AND THEY PUT THE ATTENTION ON NOOTROPICS DEALERS, fuck Logic")

[email protected]2022-06-13
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Part 8: I am a cuckhold in my deepest fantasies shoulda bought Alpha-Brain from Onit instead gentz, 2.8 Million in never pay em back PPP loans!

7772022-06-13
3c8dd100

jfc the mental gymnastics you folks do to rationalize not getting a real job

BigBrain2022-06-13
0ae8c890

ngl tbh these be the comments I expect from a nootropics article lmao

HarmPrevention2022-06-13
3fd67d40

@c6c8a574: working by design? Think the Architect of the whole is a Microsoft Employee then. @103ec204: why people ranting should not have a full time IRL job? I sleep 3-5h/night so I got time for both. (and no, not fueled by meth) People thinking I spread FUD are free to conduct survey around opioid communities and check the facts. I could not include the whole recap details of 10 years due the 1000 chars limit, and because big part of audience here probably got no clues about what I was ranting about..but still wanted to get an update or compare..the drama of nootropics dealers going to jail, while in the meantime, there is *probably* other major concerns to fix :P Peace.

dashjkdhajkkjdha2022-06-13
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^ woah bud detox is free in Cali

s9a798asd7ad2022-06-13
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^ facebook research!

HarmPrevention2022-06-13
bc9669c0

Part9, just because USA is not as bad as described above from my rant: - Ketamine finally after pharma companies for over 30 years tried to transform population in zombies with several AD meds, surprise, now it looks like it is one of the most efficient AD and recognized from science and offered from health care system - ONE state in USA, discovered that providing pharmaceutical heroin to addicted who won't quit anyway, help to keep 'em safe and integrated in society and be useful - Microdosing LSD and Weed: check, they actually help and allowed - Pharmaceutical Meth available again (not sure is really a good one to list, but still) - Best low-potency pharmaceutical opioid still available only in USA

64343432022-06-14
0f44f380

i liked your comments. i hope you participate in every post. btw have you type all that while on nootropics? they done nothing while i took them

dsa09d890asd890s2022-06-13
46cc01b0

^ wheres part 7 and 8? you just went full Gene-I-lectured-at-MIT-in-2002-time-cube to Part9? EDUCATED STUPID!

Cheers2022-06-13
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Hey it’s up! Nice seeing you dude, that boys got swag. 0-60 is the most critical acceleration point in a persons mind, after that the shit just sort of rolls along.

HarmPrevention2022-06-13
84e1c9e0

Idk, prbably the missing part got lost in the nodding or in a time/space loophole. does it really matter a few parts MIA, when 99\% of readers and writers of comments on this site are high?

lulz2022-06-14
3c9e0090

Yes. Never get high on your own supply. -- Nancy Reagan, Operation Condor

645343353642022-06-14
19bb4900

i liked your comments. i hope you participate in every post. btw have you type all that while on nootropics? they done nothing while i took them

Libertycap2022-06-13
fc48b530

The magic is in the mushroom.

tetris2022-06-18
92a854b0

The variant of tianeptine that is typically used an antidepressant is tianeptine sulfate. They were selling tianeptine sodium, the variant that is preferred by people seeing it's opiate receptor agonist properties. As far as scary opioid RCs go, it doesn't get much scarier than tianeptine sodium. It may not be astronomically potent like fent, but if you become dependent on it, you're gonna have a very bad time. Like to the point that not even methadone will help get you well when you're withdrawing from it. No way these two would have been busted if they had never touched tianeptine sodium.

elsavadooooor2022-06-14
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382482342022-06-19
146aadc0

Gees... People go to jail for selling vitamins, basically.. Unbelievable.

Towlie2022-08-22
17415890

$1000 bucks a month plus heat and lights? Mat2 is included in tails. Don’t forget to bring a towel!

jtamaz2022-08-23
cdb39f00

Didn't know that mat2 was included in Tails, thanks.

rty2022-08-22
6d573600

"Metadata is extraordinarily intrusive. As an analyst, I would prefer to be looking at metadata than looking at content because it's quicker and easier, and it doesn't lie." -Edward Snowden

Coon Tree2022-08-23
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Something tells me Snowden won’t be selling out his new Russian employment like he did the US hahaha you’re a good man Snowden. But ya rest assured vendors, there’s a good chance someone is checking your posted product picture’s metadata if I’m barking up the right tree good ol’ dnl sent me up here

KN2022-08-23
b7cd6940

Let’s just say, it ain’t life in the Caribbean ;)

Nigga Way2022-08-23
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ayo fuck dah shi, in da hood we use digital camera from the 90’s ta snap dat shit

Black folks2022-08-24
8693c730

Wait “Ayo” what about black folks who rob and kill from black folks?

SHITCUNTFUCKER2022-08-26
98afcea0

this is fuckin stupid if you google this bullshit a video comes up from this debate FROM 2014 why the fuck is this front page news here??????????

10e974612022-08-28
5155bc00

bc it's still relevant, you are fucking stupid, your mom probably cooks meth behind you??????????????

GFY Hayden2022-08-27
462ee960

Michael Hayden is one of the reasons why 9/11 happened. Never forget that. Look up ThinThread. Hayden decided to give his fellow friend from SAIC a couple hundred million bucks to build a shitty system that took year to implement. Hayden was also very happy with all the government gibs after 9/11. A good friend of Hayden once said “9/11 was a gift for the NSA”. Now he’s a smug, finger-wagging retard who’s trying to stay relevant by being an arrogant cunt.

27892722022-06-12
85261c30

edit: you are also can be treated with Duragesic (fentanyl) too brought to you by J&J and Vicodin by Janssen.

545424256842022-06-13
95869560

Homie is on fucking point, i dont often post really ever on this site but came across this article and thought, "huh, they must have been selling deadly RCs" nope. LMAO WTF?! man this is on some twilight zone shit. The US is so fucked at this point, and the propaganda of Fent and Heroin as well as the cartels being the main problem is so false, well at least it was until the US decided to yeah lets make it even harder (around 2015) to get real meds. So fent being cheaper and well back then actually fentanyl it wasnt the disaster we see now. Because it was actual fentanyl being sold on the DN. Now its a fucking game of russian rouletter, even with pills. They clamped down so fucking hard all going back to the oxy "epidemic" which was NOTHING compared to this shit now. I remember reading something like idk under 10k opiate ODs to now 100K+ and its all b/c that small amount of people ODing back in 2005-2010 or i guess you could go back further to around 2002 when the ODs were around 5k..

gabagoo2022-06-13
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Pt. 2 58c83f4c is so incredibly on point that I actually feel relieved im not the only one who sees this shit. 2010 by then doctors were starting to get cracked down on pretty heavily. so many ppl Ive come across were in real need of pain meds or benzos 2015 basically good fuckin luck. No Dr. prescribes or wants to touch that shit in fear of repercussions. Id guess lowballing that 1 in 10 were not on one of those kinds of drugs. So now, yes like dude said you got an enormous population stripped of getting their meds. So ppl turn to heroin (expensive) then fent comes, which when real and pure is not safe but def better than the russian roulette game now. No idea whats in what, xanax that looks real has RCs that are extremely potent, no fent now, yeah no fent dope listings crack me up, right but it has a brand new RC 20x more potent. nonsense of greed in America this shit takes the cake. This whole drug war has always been BS but this round of it is horseshit deluxe.

If I cared...2022-08-23
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We are a new nonprofit and our first project is raising awareness about the exponential increase of synthetic opioid overdoses plaguing communities across the country. According to the CDC, Fentanyl is now the number one cause of death for Americans ages 18 to 45. Surpassing suicide, Covid-19, and car accident-related deaths. Fentanyl is now being cut into almost everything and sometimes is even being sold as cocaine, molly, pills, etc. So it is better to test those drugs before you use them. That is why we are trying to make it easier to attain Fentanyl Test Strips(FTS), right now there are not many outlets that are accessible. Aside from testing other Harm Reduction Tactics you and your friends can follow are: -Test your supply. -Always have a buddy, someone near by, or at a minimum aware of what you are doing -Take it slow, use a very small amount and see how it reacts to your body. -Try snorting or smoking instead of injecting, this also allows you to take it slower and se

dnllivesmatter2022-08-23
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ayo this nigga know what up these HUWITE PIPO need 2 stop aight? all im sayin is yall mayo monkeys need to STOP 👏 STEALIN 👏 FROM 👏 OUR 👏PEOPLE we make that metadata yall gotta make yo own k? YAH GRILL ME? WARE MY WAKAWANDANS AT AYO LETS FUCKING GO PEOPLE ✊🏿