Only a tweet from 5 hours ago so news is still scarce, will update when they give us more info.
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"5 men in their 20s charged with drug offences on dark web forums" - NCA
Only a tweet from 5 hours ago so news is still scarce, will update when they give us more info.
Our campaign against #DarkWeb criminality continues - 5 men in their 20s charged with drug offences on dark web forums Reply Retweet Favorite More
[97 Points] None:
[19 Points] delta_eight:
Everyone involved in the NCA should do us a favor and kill themselves. It'd be a more productive use of our time and tax dollars.
Also an 8th of dank that it's just a group of room mates who got caught with a QP of dank and broke down and revealed and that this in reality has almost nothing to do with DNMS.
[13 Points] RosyPalm:
Hmm, forums and not marketplaces.
Typo or significant difference?
[8 Points] delvx:
This definately sounds like buyers. Probably caught a group of bros placing a combined order.
Either way someone broke down and cried about ordering it online. I find it unlkely this is much more than 'we got lucky, caught some drugs, and they confessed to where they ordered them.'
If this turns out to be some kinda market/tor/btc flaw Ill do a backflip.
[3 Points] gwern:
NCA also tweeted:
Manchester men face over 40 charges of supplying drugs globally via #DarkWeb forums
I asked Vice journalist Joseph Cox over Twitter if he could ask the NCA for more details since he reported on PlutoPete in February, and he did, asking specifically about what 'forums' they were talking about; this is all they would tell him:
charged with a range of offences relating to possessing and supplying controlled drugs.
- Basil ASSAF (born 1991) – Bombay House, Whitworth St, Manchester
- Jamie RODEN (born 1992) – Half Moon Lane, East London
- Elliot HYAMS (born 1992) – Copperkins Lane, Amersham
- Jaikishen PATEL (born 1992) – Woodford Ave, Ilford
- Joshua MORGAN (born 1989) – Chapeltown St, Manchester
All are due before Manchester City Magistrates on 14/05/15
(Googling the names doesn't turn up anything immediately.) So we still don't know if, for example, 3 of these men were the 3 SR1 Manchester sellers busted in October 2013. Possibly we will learn more on 14 May 2015 from the hearings?
[3 Points] None:
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[3 Points] None:
If it's really a forum, LE probably sent messages out and bated people and a few unlucky people responded or 1 person got bated and their roommates got in trouble too.
[2 Points] greaterhongkong:
The money of their livelihood depends on the violence with physical drug gangs. It is obvious that they must stop the happy voluntary interaction of peaceful folks. Only from that manner can they create the crime of the street that is necessary to fund their existence.
[2 Points] None:
Is this regarding the DNM subreddit users who were subpoenaed?
[1 Points] ehhwahatt2:
"drug offenses" could be buyers, easy to sting buyers especially if they profiled a vendor
[1 Points] CocaineNose:
Kind of annoying to use twitter for stories like this. Now we have to wait for a decent article.
[1 Points] Wordizbond:
Wonder if this is related to the speculation of a German weed vendor bust
[1 Points] None:
I still don't understand this shit, you don't punish the buyer- you punish the supplier. Then the problem is eliminated.
OR
Take over the supplier's business and cash in on the taxes and build nice schools for the kids!!
[1 Points] SgtFaecesProcessor:
It's a sad day but just goes to show how complete and utterly ineffectual their campaign to cut down on DNM sales truly is. 5 arrests out of thousands, probably tens of thousands. Score! They can pat themselves on the back after that.
They brag about ruining 20 year old people's lives for victimless crimes. Sounds like sociopathic behavior