Nine members of a 13-member darkweb drug trafficking ring were imprisoned for their roles in the operation. The ring sold a variety of drugs through the darkweb where they accepted orders and received payment in bitcoin. They used German post offices and mailboxes located in the German-Dutch border region to deliver drugs to their customers worldwide. Read more

The Federal Drug Agents Foundation provided a Lieutenant of the South Brunswick Police Department with an award for the takedown and arrest of the darkweb vendor "Sinmed." The Sinmed bust led to the largest alprazolam seizure in the state of New Jersey. Police found thousands of pills in five gallon buckets from Home Depot. Read more

A Colorado judge sentenced a cocaine vendor to 66 months imprisonment for selling almost 50 kilograms of cocaine to his customers on a darkweb market. The vendor had also committed aggravated identity theft and money laundering, according to a press release from the Department of Justice. Read more

The Northern California Illicit Digital Economy Task Force updated their onion service to include the name of another darkweb vendor that federal investigators had identified. This time, according to the task force's list, investigators identified an alprazolam vendor with a presence on Dread, Cryptonia Market, and Empire Market. Read more

One member of a drug manufacturing ring in Pennsylvania was sentenced to 156 months in prison for selling counterfeit oxycodone pills on the darkweb. The conspirators purchased kilogram quantities of fentanyl on the darkweb, created fake oxycodone pills with a pill press, and then resold the pills both locally and on the darkweb. Read more

Two residents of Melbourne, Australia, admitted they had used the dark web and the postal system to import drugs into Australia for distribution. The duo ran the drug trafficking operation from a two-bedroom apartment in Mernda, Melbourne. Read more

One of the two defendants behind the Dream Market vendor account "The Drug Llama" was sentenced in a United States District Court to 108 months in federal prison for his role in a large-scale fentanyl distribution operation. Read more

The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that Hugh Brian Haney had admitted laundering more than $19 million worth of drug money earned by selling controlled substances through Silk Road. According to court documents, Haney operated a vendor account under the username Pharmville. Read more