I wasn't asking you specifically. It was rhetorical. A statement wrapped in a question. A lil ponder. The meaning of life?

Or, if you keep fentanyl banned on these sites.... ban most of the opioid trade under that existing policy. Because all those affordable M30s and other presses and "china white" and "heroin" and more is by and large laced with synthetics under spurious circumstances, this bust unfortunately being a great example of that.

I think, well, that it's time to make a decision. Bring this trade out of the gray zone, or totally remove it from the sites.

But know that removing it, will just push people back to the streets, and away from this kind of revolutionary project. Plus, another website will probably just take the place of these types of projects, doing the exact thing I outlined here. Why? Because opioids are now some of the most popular drugs in America. It wasn't the same just a few years ago-- the pandemic changed a lot, but the momentum and growth of this market was already there beforehand. We are in a new "crack epidemic" type situation.

I know I want the DNMs to be part of the situation, because I want to see a functional approach to public health that isn't what we did for covid; statist lockdowns, disempowerment of the people, medicalization and misery for the masses. But the question is, are the people organizing the DNM scene, having both the interest and capacity to implement this? So far, I'm not sure what the answer will be, but if this generation of DNM admins and moderators and users and vendors is not able to implement this, I think and I even feel confident that the next one will get something like this together, because this is the only way forward that doesn't involve the creation of an essentially totalitarian future; police states, forced treatment, gang wars, and all the worst shite you can imagine.

We can be the change. I really believe we can.

But do we want to be?

Probaly was vending on Telegram....the level of this guys opsec has me believing buyers info was exposed

it's on this site www dot localcrimenews dot com/welcome/detail/82198177/christopher-james-hampton-arrest dot html

dude got a DUI in 2019, must not have completed the requisite '90 meetings in 90 days' or whatever other bullshit hoops they make unlucky drunks jump through these days

www dot fbi dot gov/news/stories/la-investigation-gives-insights-into-a-deadly-drug-supply-112122

AND

www dot fbi dot gov/video-repository/b-roll_la-jcode_110222.mp4/view

the video is jcode takedown footage of what they found narco710 with

Investigation into Online Drug Vendor Illuminates Counterfeit Pill Danger

November 21, 2022 @ FBI.gov

Suspect in Los Angeles was allegedly manufacturing and shipping large quantities of fake pills and other dangerous drugs

The user will think they’re taking a Percocet or Adderall that they purchased from a social media contact or a local dealer—or maybe it was handed to them by a friend.

But the pill is far more likely to be something manufactured in a location like the one agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and FBI recently uncovered in an Inglewood, California, basement.

There, giant pill presses spit out thousands of convincing counterfeit drugs. A video of the presses in action shows the drugs are being created in what is far from a quality-controlled setting. Powder flies everywhere as the pills drop into plastic five-gallon buckets. Because the pills contain powerful drugs like methamphetamine and the synthetic opioid fentanyl, it's immediately apparent why these drugs are so dangerous.

According to the DEA, two milligrams of fentanyl is a potentially lethal dose. Two milligrams looks like a few grains of salt.

Because of the largely erratic production methods in these pill press operations, the amount of the powerful drug will vary from pill to pill.

These differences can mean life or death for the user. “These people are not sitting there measuring the amount of fentanyl in each pill,” said FBI Special Agent Tiana Kostic, who led the investigation as part of a team out of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office. “One pill may not kill someone, but the next one might.”

She said that on the online marketplaces in which these drugs are sold, they may be described as “pressed” versions of prescription drugs, pressed Oxycontin for example. The more experienced buyers on illicit marketplaces may know what this means, but most users don’t, she said. “It is the less experienced user, someone buying through a local source, who thinks they are getting a prescription pill.”

Fake pills, like the ones manufactured in that basement, are one of the drivers of a growing and alarming number of overdose deaths in the United States. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, deaths caused by synthetic opioids like fentanyl increased to 71,238 in 2021, up from an already staggering 57,834 in 2020. Deaths linked to methamphetamine use are also on the rise.

Several students within the Los Angeles Unified School District have died from fentanyl poisoning since the beginning of the school year. Many of those victims are believed to have consumed drugs they thought were pharmaceuticals.

A Los Angeles-based DEA special agent who investigated this case said she also investigates overdose deaths—and, recently, a lot of overdose deaths among young people. “What I’m seeing is the kids are taking the one blue pill or even half of the blue pill, and it’s an instant overdose,” she said.

Two Investigations Focus in on One Prolific Dealer

The DEA case agent began investigating the individual behind the massive pill-making operation in Inglewood, California, when U.S. Customs and Border Protection intercepted a die-cast piece being shipped to Los Angeles from abroad. This particular piece was created to print pressed pills with the same markings as the brand-name drug Adderall.

The pill presses and parts are legal to own, the DEA special agent said, but they're illegal to use for drug-trafficking purposes. This suspect had die pieces for a number of brand name drugs, nearly 50 in total.

“He could change up the press so it could mark them as Adderall or Xanax or with anything a legitimate drug might have,” the case agent said.

As she investigated the person who ordered that die piece, she learned that FBI Special Agent Kostic was pursuing the same individual, whom the FBI team had identified as a major online drug dealer, selling on both darknet and clearnet sites. Darknet sites require a specialized browser called Tor to view. Clearnet sites are available on any connected device.

Their joint work, and months of investigative efforts by FBI, DEA, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and Homeland Security Investigation teams, eventually led to six search warrants being carried out on the same early November morning. Partnerships among agencies are crucial to the success of these complex investigations and were the primary reason the Department of Justice created the Joint Criminal and Opioid Darknet Enforcement (JCODE) Team in 2018.

Altogether, investigators found six pill presses; 10 weapons, including one that had been modified to function as an automatic weapon; bundles of cash; and approximately 450 pounds of illegal drugs, which included tens of thousands of pills, powdered fentanyl, marijuana, mushrooms, heroin, and other substances that still need to be identified.

Many of the pills were the so-called "rainbow pills" that investigators believe are created to market to young people. They are often sold on popular social media platforms.

While searching the location believed to be the primary suspect's residence, investigators also found packaging materials, heat sealers, and the computers and phones he used to run his active online business. One computer was left open.

“We were able to get a pretty comprehensive buyer list, which included approximately 2,200 unique buyer names for a total of over 4,000 sales,” said FBI Los Angeles Supervisory Special Agent Andrew Innocenti.

Agents are now looking into those leads because many of the buyers were ordering large quantities of drugs, indicating that they may be reselling. They are also tracking down any deaths associated with the drug buys.

“We are actively investigating whether drugs supplied by this vendor resulted in any overdose deaths,” said Innocenti. “If you are shipping drugs in the mail, you should know you are responsible for the people who are dying from them.”

Nathan Cocklin, the head of the FBI Hi-Tech Organized Crime Unit and the Bureau's JCODE team lead, believes this to be the largest seizure of drugs from an online drug marketplace in the five-year history of the JCODE program by far.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, along with the federal and local law enforcement agencies, announced charges against the primary suspect in the case at a press conference today. Prosecutors expect to announce charges against additional subjects in the coming weeks and months.

The other goal of publicizing the case is to show the American public the source of this deadly drug supply so they better understand the risk. The DEA agent on the case also urged parents to have frank conversations with their children about the danger these pills present.

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check out the link i provided its on fbi dot gov website they also have footage of it..... even though you may have used monero that doesn't mean your in the clear if he kept detailed records of transactions along with addresses. So its better to be safe than sorry i guarantee you this will kick start more investigations into his clients.

Yup.

I had never been rubbed the wrong way as much by someone before. He truly was awful to deal with man, and the other day i was still in awe of posts referncing "where is my missing order". If you search his name, you will find pages and pages of complaints by users coupled with childish came calling and excuses by him. its wild man, wild.

No idea. But a couple a large vendors (Pressure Packs, that idiot in Germany) kept them from the beginning.

If your friend ordered a 100 ct I imagine that he's fine. If he's moving weight, I'd clean house.

All the major vendors save aas much of your info as possible, I guess to share with other vendors about who is a shitty customer to deal with? I'ce heard that a few times

He was, back in the day. I ordered from him on Archy, I don't know, 3-4 times before he settled on world market and alphabay.

They may have erased his account, but he was definitely on Archy

It is moronic.

If you want to multiply something by 10, add a 0 to the end.

If you want to multiply something by 2 and the leading digits are below 5, then just double them. 3*2 = 6, 1*2 = 2, therefore 310*2 = 620

An elementary school child would know this and it wouldn't even be taught to them. These are things you learn to do instantly in your head as you go along.

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digitally speaking, what would cleaning house look like? Factory reset of laptop, and moving shit like GPG keyring to persistent storage on tails? I can't afford to toss my laptop. I really wasnt trying to fuck with tails because of how time consuming it is considering i only buy for myself. But now I feel like my hand is forced.

at what point can I stop worrying about it? if that makes sense. a year? 2?

No, you don't deny.

You don't say ANYTHING without an attorney. A denial is just a confession... something, something....

Ohhh, wait... yeah. That might be a *doink* moment on my part. If he was arrested, his listings were still up and not much he could do about it. I gotcha, I take back what I said above then.