UK Dark Web Drug Dealers Sentenced
James Buckett
According to the Surrey police, the drug trafficking conspiracy was launched in 2019 by 35-year-old James Buckett. Buckett operated an undisclosed dark web drugs vendor profile through which he distributed cocaine, LSD, cannabis, and pharmaceutical drugs worldwide.
Buckett's drug trafficking operation was discovered in February 2019 after Border Force officers at Heathrow Airport intercepted a suspicious package sent to him from the Netherlands. On opening the package the officers found 60.4 grams of MDMA.
The investigators established that Buckett acquired the drugs from other dark web vendors and had them mailed to the homes of his accomplices. After receiving the drug packages, 28-year-old Alfie Petherick packaged the drugs according to quantities ordered by their buyers and mail them to the buyers.
Craig Norton, 32, acted as a drug runner for hire. He delivered drug packages to their buyers.
In June 2019, Buckett failed to pay rent and his landlord got into the flat forcefully. The landlord reportedly found drugs and drug paraphernalia. He also found that Buckett kept handwritten notes of how he would set up a drug trafficking empire.
The ivestigators arrested Buckett on July 29, 2020, on a boat he had turned into the center of his drug trafficking operation. Norton and Petherick were arrested the next day.
The fourth defendant in the case, 32-year-old Joseph Strachan was arrested on August 13, 2020, after the investigators established that Buckett had purchased the vendor account from him.
Strachan was found guilty of conspiracy to supply cocaine and diazepam and was sentenced to two years in prison suspended for two years.
Norton pleaded guilty to conspiring in the distribution of cocaine and was sentenced to two years and six months in prison.
Petherick pleaded guilty to conspiring in the distribution of MDMA, cocaine, cannabis, and diazepam. He was sentenced to four and a half years behind bars.
Buckett pleaded guilty to conspiring in the distribution of MDMA, cocaine, cannabis, and diazepam. He was sentenced to nine years in prison.
Comments (38)
landlord2023-08-0385843bd3
The lesson here is If you plan to start a drug empire and you're renting then you should remember to pay your rent on time and be a good tenant or else you'll get owned. What a fucking moron.
needlenuts2023-08-01fe9b181f
**Plan to create drug trafficking empire** Step 1: Get a bigger piece of paper to write my notes on.
aaron1rags22023-08-09fc9a89dd
Im pretty sure a landlord can't force entry himself has to take you to court then the bailiffs can force entry. Otherwise its breaking and entering and who can say the landlord who broke in didn't plant drugs and evidence etc
RenegadeScientist0072023-09-021be5916f
In the UK there are normally things that explicitly allow entrance both in the lease and also in the law, 99% sure the landlord was on solid ground.
Al1ce2023-08-0336dab0f5
you'd think he wouldn't his master plan down if his landlord had a history of snooping thru his stuff !
RentFreeRebellion2023-08-11c8867041
Lessons he will learn in 9 1/2 year when he gets out ''Pay rent on time'' Just had a decade to think about that.
Basilfishbreath2023-08-110f637ca9
Have received letter from police, (AND AN ANONYMOUS LETTER FROM 24 HOURS IN POLICE CUSTODY TV PROGRAM) All I can think is that when they raided one of these Site modulators, they got the records of buyers too. Silly sellers, encrypt FFS. After the ludicrous sentence given to Ross William Ulbricht, while they tried to teach us all a lesson, and now surprise they find the hydra has many more heads now., how ironic, this “war on drugs is obviously unwinnable, so quality control, tax and no m0re gangsters would be a mature outcome.. I have heard many senior police agree. One day the world will grow, up, regulate, and look after People who fall to the side instead of criminalizing them, and Countries such as Colombia, Bolivia and Peru, can earn a decent amount for their crops I believe we are legion , it is just a matter of time.
simmzzzz2023-08-156afc1e7f
What a fucking idiot. How can you fail to pay the landlord. The lesson to be taking is always pay your landlords on time.
Satan2023-08-20f09d506f
What does he do with the money he earns from drugs they say he is a drug dealer
StAgnis2023-09-07acc44959
Murphys law says that something that can happen will eventually happen if the circumstances remain the same. You dwell in illegal activities long enough, you'll eventually slip up. Even people like Lebron James or Michael Jordan fucked games up. Lebron more so than Jordan but you get what im saying.
anonymous2023-07-31752adc81
Holy moly. Heres a joke. What do you call a group of pimps? A hoe owners association