I'm not sure how much interest there will be in this. I was considering making a general AMA about prison thread. I think something like that might take off and I don't want to be committed to making a bunch of replies. I figured I'd keep it to the darknet crowd.
I really doubt there is gonna be anyone that remembers me here. I was the sellers "RarePosy" and "Valuum" on OPR (OnlinePharmacyReview) back in 06-08. My hushmail got posted around a bunch of other forums I never really knew. VickysSecret, undrugged, etc. Anyways I sold cocaine, oxycontin, marijuana, and pretty much any pill I could get my hands on locally. I actually started selling on the site when I was only 17 years old. Because of this I made some costly mistakes that led to my arrest. I'm sure everyone wants to know how I got busted so I'll go into that first:
I sent out a package of cocaine to a guy with express shipping. I had checked the "waive signature" box but they still tried to make him sign for it. Checking that box doesn't always mean USPS is just going to leave the packages. It just means they will leave it if you aren't home. I've had many, many, times where they asked me to sign for express mail packages where the box was checked. Anyways the buyer was one of those guys that thinks not signing for a package is gonna save them from a dopecase. I'm sure someone will dispute me on this now but I just read that history of silk road timeline and other people have been busted without signing for packages too. Anyways they sent the package back to the return address, which was fake. They flagged the package as suspicious and had a drug dog smell it. Despite the vacuum sealing the dog alerted on it. They couldn't figure out who sent it though. They flagged the fake name. Flash forward to something like a year later, I kinda blew up online and was getting quite a few orders every day. Well on one day I had something like 8 orders so I took them to my local post office. A year after my coke package was seized and the name was flagged I accidentally used the same fake name. I'll never forget the name I used, Casey Holland, talk about bad luck! Then to top things off one of the postal employees happened to live across the street from the house I grew up in so she had a vague idea who I was. They didn't arrest me or anything right then but they quickly figured out who I was and raided my families house soon after. The police were huge dicks and purposely tried to question me away from my family. They would flip the fuck out and scream at me when I asked for a lawyer. They told me whatever I do "Do not mention word of your arrest online". Of course I did that as soon as they left. The forums I were on deleted all traces of me and changed addresses.
What might surprise people is that they didn't really do very much investigation on the online aspect of this case at all. They seized my computer and all they ever asked me about were AIM conversations I had with a local friend. They actually gave me the computer back eventually, which was cool. My lawyer set up a meeting with the post master general guy of MI during which I answered a few questions. No, I did not "snitch". This guy was just curious why people use USPS. I told him the whole thing about FedEx and UPS being private companies, blah blah blah. I then told him about vacuum sealing. This was almost ten years ago so they were really ignorant to online drug dealing.
I ended up getting 6 months in county jail + 5 years of probation. I made it about 4 years into probation before I violated and got 6 more months in county. That's 12 months total, and you can only do a year on any case so anymore time meant prison. I violated again and was sentenced to 23 months with 13.5 months credit. In case you were wondering every violation I've ever had was for failing drug tests.
So I was supposed to do something like 10 months in prison, I ended up being denied my first parole which made my time incarcerated more like 2 years. I'm not sure how interested people are in prison but I can get into that if you want.
I don't mean for this post to be an after school special or anything. If you wanna sell dope you're probably gonna make more money and get away with it longer on the DN than locally. Just know that even if you take all the needed tech precautions you can still be busted. After reading the silk road timeline it seems like many of the busts stemmed from post office/real life problems as opposed to some dude forgetting to use pgp.
Anyways feel free to ask questions!
EDIT 1: Felt like adding a new story. This is about the time I met up with an online buyer IRL.
So I was selling cocaine at the time and in my menu I mentioned I shipped from Mid-Michigan. This lady with the username "CharlottesWeb" (or something like that) messaged me saying she was from St. Johns, MI and begged me to deliver her 7gs of coke. I told her to just get express shipping but she kept on begging, she was sending me TONS of messages. She offered me an extra $150 to drive it. I was paying $225 7gs at the time, and selling it online for $450, she offered me $600 to drive it to her. I eventually called her off of a prepaid trac phone. This lady was so fucking weird and nutty it actually made me less paranoid. I thought "There's no way this lady is a cop, she's too goofy". I finally decided to do it, keep in mind I was still in highschool at the time. I convinced my friend to come along for the ride.
We make the drive, which was a bit over an hour away. We're using my buddies GPS and it takes us into the middle of fucking nowhere, I mean BUMFUCK nowhere. Finally the GPS says we're almost there and I see the house. "Dude...that can't be the house". The place was a fucking mansion, with a mansion of a horse barn and a giant immaculate white picket fence surrounding a huge property. I pull in and try to call the lady, no answer. We sat there for 20 minutes calling before I decided to go in. I walk up and ring the door bell. Her husband answers and he has NO FUCKING CLUE who I am. I said "uhhh.... is Charlotte home?" and he says "Why? That's my wife" and there's this big awkward silence. Finally I see this total MILF stumble through a door way. She has a can of busch light and is totally wasted (always thought it was weird she was so rich yet drank busch light). She tells her husband "ohhhh honey, thats a boy, i, uh, i put an ad in the paper for working in the horsebarn WERE GONNA GO TO THE HORSEBARN" and the husband just puts his head down and shuffles away. You could tell he was totally pussy whipped to his trophy wife. I walked past her kids which was weird because I was 17 at the time and they were nearly my age. This lady was about as hot as a 47 year old can be (she told me her age) but she dressed like a teenager in halfway zipped Hollister hoodies, AE jeans, etc. Anyways we both go out to the horse barn and she starts rambling about all the drugs she's done, does bumps of the coke, and kinda hits on me. I'm still sketched the fuck out and ask for payment. Originally I was selling 7gs for $450, she offered me $600 to deliver it. She reaches into her purse and pulls out... a fucking check book. I was like "Hold up, are you serious?" she assured me it was a good check, and she obviously had the wealth to back it. I was still pissed off so she ended up writing me a check for $750 for the 7gs. She wrote it in sharpie marker too which was even worse. It ended up clearing fine though.
She used to send me weird messages like "we should go drink margeritas at the local bar in town" and I'd remind her I was still in highschool. I drove out coke to her a few more times but she was never home, she'd leave the check in a vacant car and I'd do a switch.
I'm interested! So the entire 12 months you spent behind bars was in a county jail, not prison?
What was it like? Any interesting stories?
One more thing, you can be vague if you want. Was there a lot of media attention surrounding your case and how "big" were you (like how many orders would you say you completed before being caught)?