WI Xanax vendor bust

https://www.deepdotweb.com/2018/01/07/teens-allegedly-bought-thousands-xanax-pills-darknet/


A tip from New York customs led to a 'major' drug bust in Wisconsin. Two 19-year-olds ordered a package of 5,000 alprazolam pills from a darknet dealer in Great Britain. Customs caught the package and alerted a drug task force in Wisconsin. The ordeal resulted in the arrest of both 19-year-olds for a wide spread of felony drug charges. When New York customs intercepted the package, they sent word to the West Wisconsin Drug Task Force. The West Wisconsin Drug Task Force preemptively researched the package recipient. The address, it turned out, belonged to the mother of the main defendant, 19-year-old Andrew Castro. When police officers arrived at the mother's Eau Claire home, they learned that the package's recipient, Andrew Castro, had actually been living at a house not far away. He continued to send mail to his mother's address, though. Police received a warrant for Castro's apartment and arrested Castro. A man who claimed to have been Castro's roommate spoke to police during the arrest. The roommate likely made Castro reconsider sharing his illegal business ventures with anyone. He told police that he had lived with Castro since June 2017. He said that Castro paid him $1,000 every month to "keep quiet." Keeping quiet, the not-so-quiet roommate explained, required turning a blind eye to Castro's importation of thousands of alprazolam pills from the darknet every month. The roommate told authorities that he knew Castro "was smart with computers and used Bitcoin to purchase alprazolam on the dark web." He said that Castro purchased as many as 20,000 pills in a single instance. Castro paid $0.40 per pill and then resold 1,000 pills for $1,400, the Criminal Complaint read. The man said that Castro and 19-year-old Jacob Brunette had recently pooled their money to pay for another 20,000 alprazolam pills. During a search of Castro's home, the police found more than 1,100 alprazolam pills, packing material, and other shipping supplies. One news agency reported that the authorities found roughly 6,000 alprazolam pills, but they may have counted the controlled delivery pills as pills found in Castro's home. Police searched Brunette's house and found more alprazolam pills, along with other substances. His mother said Brunette received packages at the address, but addressed them to their dog. Brunette had $4,000 in cash in his possession at the time of arrest. Castro received eight felony charges and Brunette received six. The charges included possession of alprazolam with intent to distribute, maintaining a drug trafficking residence, possession of illegally obtained prescription drugs, and possession of marijuana with intent to distribute. Both suspects already made their initial court appearances. Although neither suspect would receive a max sentence, the maximum sentence for Castro is 30 years in prison and the maximum for Brunette is 10 years in prison.


Ordering to his mom's house when he didn't even live at home...also paid his roommate to "be quiet" when he could have just kept his own mouth shit for free.


Comments


[61 Points] thatskank:

WHY NOT ORDER DOMESTIC HOLY SHIT...


[38 Points] reddituser00001111:

Meanwhile the mom and dog are still flipping packs.


[31 Points] lonaraxYY:

Goddamn lol how do these people get caught? why buy from Great Britian? We got people buying buying 50 sheets of LSD for 5000$ flipped for 30,000 to 50,000$ and they never get caught......./// you can buy 15,000 tabs of 25i for 2000-3000$ and flip it for 100,000$. Why would he keep buying? ...if hes buying 5000 x a month, and sold them for 3-6$ a pop thats like 20,000$ a month.. WHy do these people keep buying??


[29 Points] ForLOLSerious:

The address, it turned out, belonged to the mother of the main defendant, 19-year-old Andrew Castro. When police officers arrived at the mother’s Eau Claire home, they learned that the package’s recipient, Andrew Castro, had actually been living at a house not far away. He continued to send mail to his mother’s address, though.

I use my mommy's address as a drop all the time too. #PerfectDrop


[20 Points] Throwawaywii:

and yet I live 20mins away from there and I can never find any..smh


[17 Points] None:

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[13 Points] DNMBootyPirate:

His mother said Brunette received packages at the address, but addressed them to their dog.

HAHAHAH He must not have ever heard of Chris Perez.

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[9 Points] MuchoLoco:

For Xanax flippers , other than buying domestic , not ordering to moms house under “dogs name” and not having a snitch ass roommate, what can we do to avoid this situation


[5 Points] jointhaparty54:

i’m almost most curious about finding the vendor that is selling 20k bars for 0.40 a bar when these articles are posted lol


[3 Points] lonaraxYY:

Even if this kid only ever purchased in his entire criminal career 10,000 pills. ......thats like easily 50,000$ .......where is all of his money. And why the fuck does he keep going? lmao 200,000 to 300,000 can make you 30,000 to 50,000K a year for the rest of your life in certain locked funds


[4 Points] Intergalactic_Reborn:

Got greedy is all.


[4 Points] GaryGundark:

You guys are focusing on all the wrong details. One word. I've spent 4 years researching the markets, pouring over every press release, indictment, PACER record, dark/clear forum thread and reddit shitpost. One word caught my eye in this article. "Preemptively"


[3 Points] Supersizetrichomes:

I want to know

a)what vendor he ordered from in UK

b) if he/ they were vendors that we may recognize


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[1 Points] InsanityDRM:

Depending on when this actually happened, it could of been Ganesh/JeohvahUK. He had bulk Xans up on sale & he's the only UK vendor that springs to mind that can supply that kind of bulk. Although I may be wrong, I'm not into the Xan scene & I don't follow the vendors for it.


[1 Points] Getitintoday:

It's not the first time people mail drugs to their dog.


[0 Points] None:

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