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posted by on Wednesday March 22 2017, @02:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the he-didn't-want-to-get-his-hands-dirty dept.

Delivery is the weakest link in the "dark web" drug trade: the postal habits of a large-scale trader have led to his undoing.

Chukwuemeka Okparaeke is accused of dealing in very nasty stuff: Fentanyl, a high-strength synthetic opioid the Centre for Disease Control says is 50 times the potency of heroin and was responsible for nearly 10,000 deaths in the US in 2015.

Okparaeke may have been a capable Tor user, but his logistical clue needed work: he was caught not because someone linked him to his handle ("Fentmaster", on a site called the AlphaBay Marketplace), but because wearing latex gloves while depositing large numbers of packages at US post offices got the attention of staff.

He was seen at several post offices in the Middletown area of New York, and because he was bulk-buying priority delivery stamps, staff had also viewed his driver's licence.

-- submitted from IRC


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 22 2017, @01:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 22 2017, @01:55PM (#482704)

    unless you're trying to argue that some humans aren't any better than animals

    Never. I hold the opinion that the vast majority of humans aren't any better than animals. Well, I mean, they are animals. Have you seen the shit humans do to each other?! I agree however that it would be wrong for higher forms of life to make them participate in bloodsports. They don't need the help. Would it be ethical to uncloak above New York and go all Karellen about it? Maybe, maybe not. They don't pay me enough for that.