[FoxNews] Two men — one from Texas and the other from California — could face life in prison after they were indicted for allegedly using the dark web and encrypted messaging apps to sell more than 120,000 fake oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl.
Rajiv Srinivasan, 37, of Houston, Texas, and Michael Ta, 24, of Westminster, California, were charged in a 19-count indictment "in a conspiracy to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute fentanyl and methamphetamine," the Justice Department said in a press release Friday.
Srinivasan allegedly sold the drugs on "Darkode," a dark web forum notoriously used for cybercrime, as well other sites on the dark web. He would advertise and sell counterfeit M30 oxycodone pills containing fentanyl on these forums.
He would also use the encrypted messaging application Wickr to speak with and sell drugs to thousands of customers across the country. Srinivasan allegedly received virtual currency as payment before then routing that virtual currency through cryptocurrency exchanges.
The indictment alleges that between May and November, the two men sold 123,188 fentanyl pills, more than 143 kilograms of methamphetamine, as well as smaller quantities of fentanyl powder, black tar heroin and cocaine.
And between February and November, they sold more than 7,000 pills to an undercover agent they believed was a drug customer.
According to the indictment, Ta spoke with Srinivasan about drug orders, obtained fentanyl-laced pills and methamphetamine, stored the drugs in his home and mailed packages of drugs to customers who had ordered them from Srinivasan.
Srinivasan was sent to jail without bond and is being transported from Texas to California to stand trial. Ta was released on bond and his arraignment is scheduled for December 22.
The statutory maximum sentence for the conspiracy charge alleged in the indictment is life in federal prison, according to the indictment.
El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser declared a state of emergency, saying the migrant crisis in the border town was beginning to threaten the safety of residents
Leeser said 2,500 migrants are arriving in El Paso daily those numbers are likely to more than double as Trump-era border legislation, Title 42, expires this week
Title 42 was enacted in March 2020 to ostensibly control COVID-19 transmission at the border, but has been used to ease border control ever since
Last week Denver also declared a state of emergency in preparation for the expiration of Title 42
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The Democrats used the border to bash Trump and Republicans. Now the monster they created is after them and they can't cope.
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What is the most demoralizing is that we all know what needs to be done, but it won't get done because we all know what will happen to those who attempt to get something done. I dunno folks but I for one am moving towards this. Our Founders were moved by much less. What is our stone? There is an aswer here, and it's right before us.
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At least two civilians were killed on Saturday by the explosion of a projectile left over by Saudi-led coalition forces in Saada province, northern Yemen, a local source said .
The source added that the explosion accident occurred in Akwan area.
At least two civilians were killed on Saturday by the explosion of a projectile left over by Saudi-led coalition forces in Saada province, northern Yemen, a local source said .
The source added that the explosion accident occurred in Akwan area of Al-Safra district.
The Counter-Terrorism service (CTS) announced carrying out a raid in Tal Afar, Nineveh upon the orders of PM Mohammed Shia al-Sudani. pic.twitter.com/Xa7w6ocAVb
Clashes erupted between Iraqi security forces and a group of turbans who are believed to be involved in a kaboom that killed at least eight troops in Kirkuk on Sunday morning.
Earlier today, a blast from a roadside kaboom reportedly targeted a convoy for Iraq's federal police in the southwestern sub-district of Riyadh. The blast killed eight troops, including a major, according to a security source.
In the aftermath of the attack, a search campaign was launched in the vicinity of the attack's location to trace the perpetrators. The Force on duty identified the group of turbans believed to be members of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) bad boy organization.
The security force, according to a source, engaged with the murderous Moslem group and managed to kill one of its members.
The operation is underway to locate and apprehend the rest of the group's members, the source concluded.
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Unknown individual shot for unknown reason. Sounds like Chicago. Don’t they know about gun control in Syria? It could solve a lot of their violence very fast because they lack the underlying causes like systematic racism and homophobia that prevent us from making significant progress on our social issues.
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Sort of like a lot of the NCAA Bowl gams: Unknown State vs Never Hearda U.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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