"Man arrested after $220,000 worth of ‘wizard' drug 25i-NBOMe intercepted" (30 September 2014):
A man has been charged with serious drug offences after allegedly
ordering almost 11,000 “blotter tabs” — responsible for two deaths in
South Australia in 12 months — off the internet. The man, 21, was
arrested after a package was intercepted at Sydney Airport after he
allegedly ordered about 5000 blotter tabs of the fatal drug, 25i-NBOMe,
which has been on the market since 2003. Police searched his Morphett
Vale home last Friday, September 26, and allegedly found a further 5700
tabs. The drugs were allegedly sent from Canada and have a street value
of about $220,000.
"Alleged N-bomb drug dealer Ryan James Norman runs from court, covering face, after first hearing" (4 November 2014):
Norman, 21, of Morphett Vale, has yet to plead to two counts of
trafficking in a large commercial quantity of a controlled drug and one
count of possessing a prescription drug...Today James Caldicott, for
Norman, asked his client’s case be transferred to the Adelaide
Magistrates Court. Norman was remanded on continuing bail until January.
"'Naive' drug trafficker used own name on website now shut down by FBI, Adelaide court hears" (12 June 2015):
A young Adelaide drug trafficker was "naive" enough to use his own
name on a buy-and-sell website that since has been shut down by the FBI,
a court has heard. Ryan James Norman, 21, imported drugs from Canada,
including LSD, via the website Silk Road 2.0...Norman also had ecstasy,
and steroids for personal use. He pleaded guilty to seven drugs charges,
including trafficking in a commercial quantity of a controlled drug,
and the maximum penalty he could face is life in prison. Norman's lawyer
Craig Caldicott said his client was a smart young man who was naive when he used his own name on the black market site and express post to send drugs interstate...Mr
Caldicott said Norman was active on the now-removed website for about
two months. After the sentencing submissions, the court revoked the
young man's bail and he was taken into custody ahead of sentencing on a
date to be fixed.
The media articles do not specify which SR2 seller. However, checking
my late September 2014 crawls of SR2, there is only one seller of NBOMs
who claimed to ship domestically in Australia: "MagicAU". MagicAU sold
bulk quantities of NBOM (with listings for ~1k), sold LSD, mentions
shipping using Express post like Norman, and his profile vanishes from
SR2 sometime between my 26 September crawl (the same day Norman was
raided) and 28 September, and MagicAU's listings & profile do not
reappear for the rest of SR2's lifetime. So, Norman is MagicAU.
What is the 'naive' use of real name here? There seems to be two possibilities:
Norman used unencrypted PMs on SR2 and after SR2 was taken down
and imaged by the FBI in November 2014, his outgoing PMs were noted and
the information forwarded to Australian police, similar to how PMs seem
to have undone PurpleLotus recently. Norman had already been busted by
the customs intercept, but that couldn't've helped.
Norman had to be getting his import/restocks from someone and SR2 is
the obvious candidate, in which case it is plausible that he sent his
name/address unencrypted. However, his profile does not mention sourcing
from another SR2 supplier, and this scenario doesn't quite seem to fit
with the paraphrase of his lawyer. I don't like this explanation because
it requires a lot of claims to be true: that he bought on SR2 at all,
that he sent his name unencrypted in a PM, that the PMs got noticed in
the post-raid forensic analysis of SR2, that then they got sent to
Australian LE for use in his trial, and that his lawyer worded it
awkwardly or was referring to something else or was misquoted or
something.
Norman's packages literally were linked to his real name somehow,
which seems to be the simplest reading of the third media article (what
packages was Norman 'send'ing? obviously, packages from MagicAU to his
domestic buyers on SR2; what does that have to do with a PM to a
hypothetical supplier on SR2? nothing, the name thing is all about his
reselling). I assume it wasn't as obvious as writing his name and real
address on the return address, otherwise his feedback on SR2 would be
extremely negative as repeat buyers noticed, but it probably is more
like MDPro: he was using a PO box or had to register personal
information somehow to use 'Express post'. This is at least a simple
theory. Do any Aussies know what this Express post is and whether there
is anything to do with them that is a viable de-anonymization?
We may have to wait for the judge's sentencing decision to happen & be posted online to get more clarity.
Pointer thanks to /u/ShulginsCat
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