{"id":56081,"date":"2024-04-30T10:04:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T17:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=56081"},"modified":"2024-04-30T10:04:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T17:04:23","slug":"two-men-sentenced-to-lengthy-prison-sentences-for-drug-dealing-on-darknet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=56081","title":{"rendered":"Two Men Sentenced to Lengthy Prison Sentences for Drug Dealing on Darknet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv9030477282MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0SANTA ANA, California\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9030477282MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56083\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/gavel_1714496028.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56048 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/mallet-of-judge-in-american-courtroom-american-flag-in-courtroom-with-judge-hammer-or-mallet-of-judge-justice-concept-in-courtroom-stockpack-adobe-stock-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"Mallet of judge in American courtroom. American flag in courtroom with Judge hammer or Mallet of judge. Justice concept in courtroom.\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/mallet-of-judge-in-american-courtroom-american-flag-in-courtroom-with-judge-hammer-or-mallet-of-judge-justice-concept-in-courtroom-stockpack-adobe-stock-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/mallet-of-judge-in-american-courtroom-american-flag-in-courtroom-with-judge-hammer-or-mallet-of-judge-justice-concept-in-courtroom-stockpack-adobe-stock-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/mallet-of-judge-in-american-courtroom-american-flag-in-courtroom-with-judge-hammer-or-mallet-of-judge-justice-concept-in-courtroom-stockpack-adobe-stock-850x573.jpg 850w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/mallet-of-judge-in-american-courtroom-american-flag-in-courtroom-with-judge-hammer-or-mallet-of-judge-justice-concept-in-courtroom-stockpack-adobe-stock.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Two men, one from Orange County, California, and the other from Texas, were sentenced Monday to lengthy prison terms for using the darknet and encrypted messaging applications to sell drugs, officials stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9030477282MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">They sold more than 120,000 fentanyl-laced pills and other drugs to more than 1,000 customers across the country, causing several fatal overdoses in the process, according to authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9030477282MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Michael Ta, 25, of Westminster, was sentenced to 21 years and eight months in federal prison. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9030477282MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32005 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Acetyl-Fentanyl-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Acetyl-Fentanyl-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Acetyl-Fentanyl-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Acetyl-Fentanyl-90x60.jpg 90w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Acetyl-Fentanyl-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Acetyl-Fentanyl-95x64.jpg 95w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Acetyl-Fentanyl.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>At a separate hearing Monday, federal Judge David O. Carter then sentenced Rajiv Srinivasan, 37, of Houston, to 19 years and seven months in federal prison.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9030477282MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ta pleaded guilty in August 2023 to one count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. Srinivasan pleaded guilty in June 2023 to the same charge and to one count of distributing fentanyl, resulting in death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9030477282MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Srinivasan operated the account \u201credlightlabs\u201d on multiple darknet marketplaces, including the site \u201cDark0de.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9030477282MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30520 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Jackson-Jail-Missouri-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Jackson-Jail-Missouri-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Jackson-Jail-Missouri.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\" \/>Srinivasan and Ta used the Redlightlabs account to advertise and sell counterfeit M30 oxycodone pills containing fentanyl and other illicit drugs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9030477282MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Srinivasan also used the encrypted messaging application Wickr to communicate with and sell drugs to customers. Srinivasan received virtual currency as payment for the drugs and then routed that virtual currency through cryptocurrency exchanges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9030477282MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ta communicated with Srinivasan about drug orders, obtained fentanyl-laced pills and methamphetamine from sources of supply, stored those drugs in his residence, and mailed out packages with drugs to customers who had ordered them from Srinivasan on the \u201credlightlabs\u201d account.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9030477282MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55354 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/mt7lxzpjk7u-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"red padlock on black computer keyboard\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/mt7lxzpjk7u-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/mt7lxzpjk7u-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/mt7lxzpjk7u-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/mt7lxzpjk7u-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/mt7lxzpjk7u-850x567.jpg 850w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/mt7lxzpjk7u.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>From at least February 2022 to November 2022, Srinivasan and Ta engaged in at least 3,800 drug deals to approximately 1,400 customers in all 50 U.S. states, totaling more than 123,000 fentanyl-laced M30 pills, more than\u00a0 20 pounds) of methamphetamine, nearly 300 grams of \u201cChina white\u201d (fentanyl powder) and black tar heroin, and 27 grams of cocaine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9030477282MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Ta and Srinivasan admitted in their plea agreements to causing the fentanyl overdose deaths of three victims. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9030477282MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Both defendants further admitted to distributing fentanyl-laced pills to two additional victims, both of whom suffered fatal drug overdoses shortly after they received the pills from Ta and Srinivasan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9030477282MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-595 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/FBI-IMAGE-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"FBI Photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/FBI-IMAGE-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/FBI-IMAGE-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/FBI-IMAGE-1024x1021.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memorandum, \u201cthe five victims of defendants\u2019 crimes ranged in age from 19 to 51. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9030477282MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">They lived across the country, from California to Florida, Colorado to Arkansas. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9030477282MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Each of the five victims leaves behind a family that has been forever and fundamentally changed by the defendants\u2019 actions. [Ta and Srinivasan] also victimized countless others as part of an epidemic of addiction and despair plaguing our district and our country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9030477282MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-cdca\/pr\/federal-grand-jury-indicts-2-allegedly-supplying-fentanyl-and-other-narcotics-sold\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">related case<\/a>, Omar Navia, 39, of South Los Angeles, pleaded guilty Monday to one count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9030477282MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Navia admitted in his plea agreement that, from at least August 2021 to December 2022, he supplied fentanyl-laced pills and methamphetamine to Srinivasan and Ta\u2019s customers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9030477282MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Navia faces up to life in prison when he is sentenced on Aug. 19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9030477282MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Adan Ruiz, 27, of Garden Grove, a co-defendant in the Navia criminal case and an alleged co-conspirator with Srinivasan and Ta, has pleaded not guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and one count of distribution of fentanyl. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9030477282MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Ruiz is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">His trial is scheduled for Sept. 24.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9030477282MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"> Navia and Ruiz are in federal custody.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9030477282MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The FBI investigated this matter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9030477282MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">The investigation in this matter was conducted under the auspices of the FBI-led Joint Criminal Opioid Darknet Enforcement Team (JCODE), which targets darknet vendors by using sophisticated, high-tech techniques to identify\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-cdca\/pr\/alleged-southern-california-narcotics-traffickers-among-those-charged-international\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">drug traffickers<\/a>\u00a0who wrongly believe the dark web allows them to engage in criminal conduct with anonymity. Since its inception in 2018, JCODE investigations have resulted in the arrest of more than 300 darknet drug traffickers, as well as the seizure of more than $42 million in drug-tainted proceeds, over 800 kilograms of narcotics, and approximately 145 firearms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv9030477282MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Assistant United States Attorney Gregg E. Marmaro of the International Narcotics, Money Laundering, and Racketeering Section prosecuted this case.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0SANTA ANA, California\u00a0 Two men, one from Orange County, California, and the other from Texas, were sentenced Monday to lengthy prison terms for using the darknet and encrypted messaging applications to sell&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fbi","category-u-s-department-of-justice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Two Men Sentenced to Lengthy 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