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February 16, 2021 On Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that two Texas men were charged with allegedly participating in a darknet drug distribution conspiracy.
Kevin Ombisi and Eric Russell Jr. of Katy, Texas, were arrested Thursday and charged in the Western District of Tennessee, each with one count of conspiracy and Ombisi with an extra charge of unlawful distribution of controlled substances. The men allegedly utilized a darknet marketplace and messaging system called Wickr to sell pills resembling Adderall but the pills purportedly contained methamphetamine.
According to an affidavit by Special Agent Paul W. Cox, “(t)he darknet is a portion of the internet that is not indexed by search engines and requires special software that encrypts and anonymizes internet traffic for both those browsing and hosting websites on the darknet” and “includes a large quantity of websites that exist primarily as marketplaces for illicit substances a
Two Texas men have been charged in the Western District of Tennessee for their alleged participation in a drug distribution conspiracy perpetrated over the Darknet..