In a recent press release, a United States attorney announced that a man from Matthews, North Carolina, had pleaded guilty to attempted possession of radioactive material with intent to cause death. According to court documents, he had purchased the radioactive substance from an undercover federal agent on the darkweb.

A Chicago woman has been charged for allegedly hiring a hitman on the darknet to kill the wife of a man with whom she had an affair. Like many of the darknet “murder-for-hire” cases, the police received a tip from a fake hitman third party that sparked an investigation in early April 2018.