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Lafayette man sentenced to 18 months in prison for shipping drugs via Silk Road

The Daily Advertiser

A Lafayette man was sentenced Monday in U.S. federal court to 18 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to buying drugs from the now-defunct Silk Road website overseas and shipping them to himself.

Michael Munro Jr., 37, of Lafayette, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell on one count of smuggling controlled substances and one count of possession with intent to distribute Schedule IV narcotics. He was also sentenced to three years of supervised release.

Munro was arrested in November 2014 and July 2015 for buying illegal narcotics online overseas and having them delivered to U.S. Post Offices and FedEx locations in Lafayette and surrounding areas.

According to a news release, he told agents that in March of 2014 he began ordering pills via the internet using the now defunct Silk Road website. Munro admitted to ordering Xanax, Alprazolam and OxyContin at various times.
Homeland Security Investigations investigated the case with the assistance of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and Lafayette Metro Narcotics. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Robert F. Moore and John Luke Walker prosecuted the case.