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Arrested Darknet Vendors

A working list of known darknet vendor arrests from across the world. Currently includes only vendors with identified market names.

NCIDETF arrests: ncidetfs7ba[…].onion

Total recorded: 195
had to remove some potentially incorrect listings
This list aims to capture arrests and related incidents from 2015 to present. For a list of arrests between 2011 and 2015, Gwern has recorded more than 300 here.

Adderallz

  • Tzu Yang Lin a/k/a Isaac Lin, Leo Hu
  • Dream Market, Empire Market
  • Counterfeit Adderall (pressed with methamphetamine) and other Rx Stims.
  • Rowland Heights, California
  • FDA-OCI, DEA, HSI
  • Allegedly sold from 2017 until their 2019 arrests.
  • Darknetlive Article.

Adderall123

Addy4cheap

  • Dat Nguyen
  • Empire Market, Cryptonia Market
  • Counterfeit Adderall
  • Virginia, USA
  • Sold from May 2019 to December 2019
  • Investigated and arrested by the FBI, Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Criminal Investigations, DEA, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.
  • Pleaded guilty on December 19, 2019.

AlbertHeijn

  • Bram de V. and Thomas P.
  • Markets (?)
  • MDMA, ecstasy, LSD
  • Netherlands
  • Dutch National Police

AmsterdamUnited

  • Unidentified
  • Products (?)
  • Markets (?)
  • Netherlands
  • Dutch National Police

Amsterdoomed

aka Merchantsofdeath and Hells_Angels

  • Name Unreleased
  • Alphabay
  • Products (?)
  • Zaandam, Netherlands
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation, Europol, NL law enforcement
  • Arrested in late 2018
  • Article

ATXGreen

  • Tu Hoang Dinh
  • THC, LSD, and MDMA
  • Texas, USA
  • US law enforcement
  • December 2020

Area51

aka Darkapollo

  • Abdullah Almashwali
  • Alphabay, Dream
  • heroin, fentanyl
  • New York, USA
  • US law enforcement
  • August 2, 2016
  • 75900-054 at Allenwood Low FCI
  • DoJ Announcement

Aussiepillimporter

BerlinMannschaft

  • 33-year-old, name unreleased
  • Dream Market
  • Meth, Ecstasy, Amphetamine, Cocaine, Ketamine, MDMA, Cannabis
  • Gelderland, Netherlands
  • German law enforcement agencies
  • Arrested December 2018
  • Article

Bestman365

aka Expressman, kingofcokeman, MRGOOD247

  • Russell Ramseur
  • Agora, Evolution, Pandora, Dream Market
  • heroin
  • Maryland, USA
  • Investigated by the Dark Market and Digital Currency Crimes (DMDCC) Task Force
  • Arrested in December 2015
  • Sentenced to seven years in prison on November 9, 2021
  • Heroin Vendor “Bestman365” Sentenced to Prison

Bestshop24

  • Thomas K.
  • Nightmare Market
  • Amphetamine, Speed Paste
  • Germany
  • German Law Enforcement
  • Convicted in 2019
  • Article

BCPHARMA

aka: TheSource, BonnienClyde, BnC, & Money TS

BigActionMan50

  • Suspects have not yet been named
  • Dream Market
  • marijuana, mdma
  • North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • Arrested in October 2018
  • Central Crime Inspectorate Oldenburg
  • Article

Billmaker

  • Daniel Johnson (deceased)
  • Various markets
  • Counterfeit US Dollar Bills
  • Norman, Oklahoma, USA
  • United States Secret Service
  • Arrested in May 2018 (died during the arrest)
  • News Article

Black Diamond

aka The Specialist

  • Patrick F., Sandro T.
  • Unknown Marketplaces
  • marijuana, heroin, cocaine, amphetamines, and MDMA
  • Aachen, Germany
  • Federal Criminal Police Office
  • Active on markets from June 2016 until the November 2017 arrest.
  • News Article

Blime-Sub

aka BTH-Overdose

Bushplanet

aka DonkeyKong

  • Name Unknown
  • “At least four markets”
  • Marijauana; MDMA; Cocaine; Amphetamine
  • Czech Republic
  • Arrested in December 2019
  • Customs Administration of the Czech Republic
  • Article

CaliClaire

  • Jason Lawrence Green
  • WallStreet Market, Dream Market, Agora
  • Heroin
  • Maryland, USA
  • Admitted selling from between 2019 and late 2019
  • Arrested in late 2019.
  • The Dark Market and Digital Currency Crimes (DMDCC) Task Force
  • Dream Vendor “CaliClaire” Admits Selling Heroin

CaliConnect

  • David Ryan Burchard
  • Silk Road, Agora, Abraxas, AlphaBay
  • Cannabis, Cocaine
  • California, USA
  • ICE-HSI, USPIS, IRS
  • DoJ Announcement

CALIGIRL

  • Matthew Jones
  • Silk Road
  • Oxycodone, MDMA
  • Texas & Florida,
  • USA FBI and USPIS
  • 5 1/2 Years Imprisonment
  • DoJ Announcement

Cannabars

aka thefastplug

  • Jose Robert Porras III and Pasia Vue
  • Trade Route, Wall Street Market, and Dream Marketplace
  • marijuana, Xanax, and methamphetamine
  • Sacramento, California, USA
  • HSI and USPIS

Canned Soup

aka Dosensuppe

  • Christian L.
  • DiDW
  • AK-47s, MP5s, weapons
  • Germany
  • BKA
  • Five years Imprisonment
  • News

Capebaldy

Note: Capebaldy has been marked as identified by law enforcement.

  • Unknown name.
  • Dream Market
  • Marijuana
  • The Northern California Illicit Digital Economy (NCIDE) Task Force
  • Announcement

CHANG1927

  • Mark C. Faulkner
  • Alphabay
  • Cyclopropyl fentanyl, Adderall
  • Virginia
  • US LE
  • Pleaded Guilty in February 2020

Chemsusa

aka Chems_usa and Chemical_usa

  • RICHARD CASTRO, LUIS FERNANDEZ
  • Alphaby, Dream, and Valhalla
  • Fentanyl andother opioids
  • New York and Florida, USA
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation; The United States Postal Inspection Service; and the New York Police Department
  • Arrested in March 2019
  • Department of Justice Press Release

CherryFlavor

aka WorldWide Arms

  • Sherman Jackson, Gerren Johnson, Brendan Person, and William Jackson
  • BlackMarketReloaded, Utopia, and Agora
  • Glocks and other pistols
  • Atlanta, Georgia
  • 2013-?
  • Department of Justice Press Release

Chiquita Netherlands

  • Dutch National Police
  • Netherlands

CH-Koks

  • Unidentified
  • Dream Market
  • Cocaine
  • Switzerland
  • Zurich Public Prosecutor’s Office
  • August 2018
  • Press Release

chlnsaint

  • Chaloner Saintillus
  • Empire Market
  • fentanyl, carfentanyl, cocaine, oxymorphone
  • Florida, United States
  • Northern California Illicit Digital Economy (NCIDE) task force
  • Indicted on November 12, 2020
  • NCIDETF Announcement

CokeWave

Aka SafeDealsDirect, and HerbanFarmer

  • Eddy Steven Sandoval Lopez and Deshari Saivohn Frederick
  • Dream Market
  • Cocaine and marijuana
  • Sacramento, California,
  • Homeland Security Investigations; the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the United States Postal Inspection Service; and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
  • Arrested in October 2018; investgation began in June 2018.
  • DoJ Announcement

Courvoisier

  • Grant West
  • Alphabay
  • Cannabis and “fullz”
  • England, UK
  • NCA
  • August, 2017

Czech Airlines

  • Five undisclosed identities
  • Empire Market
  • MDMA, Cocaine, and Methamphetamine
  • Brno. Czech Republic
  • Czech Customs
  • Arrested in September 2019
  • Article Follow-up

CzechoSlovakFarm

DaCandyMan

  • Eimantas Juskevicius
  • Hansa Market
  • Cocaine
  • Kansas City, Missouri
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation
  • Arrested

Daddygreenjeans

aka MrCandy

  • Joseph R. Caruso
  • Dream, Alphabay, Agora
  • fentanyl, Cyclopropyl fentanyl
  • Wisconsin, USA
  • ICE-HSI
  • November 21, 2017
  • News Article

Darkking22

DeathStar

aka TheDeathStar

  • Justin Sean Johnson

  • Evolution

  • Stolen PII

  • Started in 2013

  • Arrested in June 2020

  • LE: (/post/michigan-man-arrested-for-selling-stolen-information-the-darkweb/)

  • Article

Diablow

aka RaisedByDiablow and raiseappeals

  • Name not released as of Oct 7
  • Silk Road 3.1, Nightmare Market
  • Cocaine, Methamphetamine, Ecstasy
  • Somewhere in California, United States
  • Lost login to Silk Road 3.1 was March 29.
  • The Northern California Illicit Digital Economy (NCIDE)
  • Announced via the NCIDE hidden service.

Diamonddweller

  • Name Not given
  • Agora
  • Steroids
  • Denmark

DigitalPossi2014

  • Robert Kenneth Decker
  • Alphabay
  • General Opioids
  • Florida, USA
  • FBI and USPIS
  • 51719-074 at Terre Haute USP

DoggFood

Dopeboy210

  • Alaa Mohammed Allawi, Benjamin Ita Uno, Eric Lamar Goss, Trevor Alan Robinson, Fernando Padilla Becerra and Mohamed M Al Salihi
  • Alphabay
  • Fentanyl, Methamphetamine, Cocaine
  • Texas, USA
  • DEA
  • 5:17-cr-00505

Doug-Heffernan

  • Names not released. Likely septate cases once more details surface.
  • Dream, Hansa
  • cocaine, ecstasy, MDMA, LSD
  • Netherlands
  • Dutch Police
  • March 16, 2018

Douppikauppa

  • Name not given
  • Silk Road, Valhalla
  • MDMA, Canabis, Ecstasy
  • Finland
  • Tulli (Customs)
  • December 2016
  • Eight years, nine months imprisonment
  • Finnish Customs Announcement

DrFrosty

aka Bulletproof-Packs

  • Omar Isho
  • Silk Road 3.1, Dream Market, Empire Market
  • Methamphetamine
  • Modesto, California, United States
  • The Northern California Illicit Digital Economy (NCIDE) Task Force
  • Arrested in June 2019
  • Announced via the NCIDE hidden service

Drogenkommandant

(Drug Commander)

  • Rhett D.
  • Dream Market
  • Amphetamine, Cocaine, Ecstasy, Heroin
  • Netherlands -> Germany
  • November 2017

Dutch-Aussie

  • Paul Schembri (Unconfirmed)
  • Alphabay, TradeRoute
  • Ketamine, Cocaine, MDMA, ecstasy
  • Australian Federal Police
  • Evidence will be posted pending court appearance.

Dutch Drugs

Not DutchDrugz

DutchMagic

DutchKings

  • Brandon M. and Kim van H.
  • MDMA, Ecstasy
  • Seven Years Imprisonment

DrFreeWell/DerErsteAffe

  • Name Not Given
  • Dream
  • amphetamine, marijuana, ecstasy, cocaine and LSD

DrugsGames

aka Smurfs, Mr Bubblegum, Rubiks

  • Four suspects, all without names
  • LSD, Cocaine, MDMA, Ecstasy, Methamphetamine, and Marijuana
  • Dream Market, Hansa Market
  • Dutch National Police and Europol
  • Arrested on March 16, 2018
  • Sentenced on May 17, 2019
  • DNL News Article

DW-guns

  • Sascha W.
  • AK-47s and Zastava M70s
  • DiDW
  • Baden-Württemberg, Germany
  • BKA
  • November 16, 2017
  • News Article

EastCoastCartelKings

EastSideHigh

  • Binh Le, Allante Pires, and Steven McCall;
  • Dream Market, Wallstreet Market;
  • Ecstasy pills and Ketamine;
  • Massachusetts, USA;
  • Arrested on March 27, 2018.
  • Investigated and Arrested by
    • Norwood police;
    • Stoughton police;
    • Brockton police;
    • The United States Postal Inspection Service
  • News Article About the Arrest, Darknetlive Article.

EtiKing

aka Brohemoth

EuroConnection

  • Netherlands
  • Dutch National Police

Farmacy41

  • Carrie Markis
  • Silk Road, Pandora, Alphabay
  • Fentanyl patches, Hydrocodone, and Morphine
  • California, USA
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation
  • News Article

FatSam

FatTuesday_13

  • James Nelson
  • AlphaBay, Dream
  • Fentanyl, carfentanil
  • Kelowna, Canada
  • Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Internal Revenue Service
  • Arrested in August 2017.
  • Darknetlive Article

Fentmaster

Finestdrugs.to

darkweb market alias unknown

  • Identity Unknown
  • Finestdrugs.to, undisclosed darkweb markets
  • marijuana, hashish, amphetamine, opioids, ecstasy and cocaine
  • Thuringia, Germany
  • German authorities
  • Arrested in 2017
  • Sentenced to 10 years in prison

G00d00

  • Name Unreleased
  • Alphabay, Hansa, Silk Road, Italian Darknet Community Reloaded, Italian Deep Web, Valhalla. Admin on IDW.
  • Cocaine, MDMA, Ketamine
  • Barletta, Italy
  • Guardia di Finanza
  • Article About the Bust, Official Press Release

George1580

  • Three men and two women in Austria
  • Dream Market, Alphabay, Nightmare, Berlusconi, Cannzon, Empire, and Darkode Reborn
  • Marijuana
  • Vienna and Lower Austria
  • Federal Criminal Police Office and the Vienna State Police Directorate
  • More than 100 kilograms of marijuana in more than 9,000 orders since 2016
  • Arrested in December 2021
  • Five Arrested for Selling Marijuana on the Darkweb

GermanTeam

  • Also known as Pistani 11990
  • Adam (54) and Christof Heinrich S. (45)
  • Dream and Valhalla
  • Fentanyl, Carfentanil, Butyrylfentanyl
  • Hamm, Germany
  • The German Federal Criminal Police Office
  • Article Covering the First Day of the Trial: nordstadtblogger.de

GermanWeedTwins

  • Name Not Released (German Law)
  • Dream, Alphabay, Others
  • Marijuana
  • German Federal Criminal Police Office
  • Late March – Early April

Ghost831

  • Jacob Matthew Medina
  • Dream Market, Alphabay (AB), Cloud9, Hydra, SilkRoad (SR), and SilkRoad 2.0
  • Counterfeit Oxycodone, methamphetamine, and heroin
  • USPIS, the Narcotics and Economic Crime Investigations (NECI) Task Force
  • Arrested in March 2019
  • Sentenced to 13 years in prison
  • Counterfeit Oxy Vendor “Ghost831” Sentenced to Prison

Gladyman

  • Lawrence Ross
  • Methamphetamine, ecstasy
  • New York, USA
  • United States Postal Inspection Service
  • Arrested in July 2019
  • News article, DOJ announcement

Gman19635

  • Robert Michael Gilner
  • Fentanyl, Carfentanil, Meth and Ecstacy
  • Florida, USA
  • FBI, ICE-HSI, USPIS
  • 69172-018 at N/A
  • DoJ Announcement

Googleplex

  • Stephan Caamano
  • Dream Market, Reddit
  • Counterfeit Xanax Bars
  • Drug Enforcement Agency
  • Arrested in 2018
  • Article

GuddaPak

  • No Name
  • White House Market, Cryptonia, Versus, Dark0de
  • Cocaine, methamphetamine
  • NCIDETF, “in conjunction with federal partners”
  • Arrested in 2021
  • No news article

GuessGuess

  • Unknown
  • Dream Market
  • Announced in August 2019
  • Article

GusTheoctopus

  • 24-year-old Name Not Given
  • Alphabay, Dream, Valhalla
  • Pistols
  • Spain
  • Europol, Spanish Guardia Civil
  • October 2017
  • Europol Press Release

hammertime

  • Jason Weld Hagen, Chelsea Leah Reder, Richard Egan Webster, and Donald Ross Bechen
  • Silk Road
  • Methamphetamine
  • Oregon, USA
  • HSI, DEA, USPIS, and IRS
  • 76056-065 (Released)
  • DoJ Announcement

Happy-Olaf

  • Unidentified
  • Dream Market
  • Cocaine, MDMA
  • Switzerland
  • Zurich Public Prosecutor’s Office
  • August 2018
  • Press Release

HdnDrgn

aka Northpole

  • Thanh Pham, Jenny Vo
  • Various Markets
  • Methyl amphetamine, heroin, MDMA and cocaine
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • Joint Task Force Icarus
  • Arrested in July 2019.

HellsGate

  • Netherlands
  • Dutch National Police

HighQualityTrips

HollandOnline

aka LowLands

  • Bram de V. was the second owner of the account. Thomas P. is the suspected first owner of the account.
  • Silk Road 1, Silk Road 2.0 and Agora
  • MDMA, ecstasy, LSD
  • Netherlands
  • Dutch National Police
  • 12 March 2015

HonestHerb

Note: HonestHerb has been marked as identified by law enforcement.

  • Unknown name.
  • CGMC, Dream Market
  • Marijuana, oxycodone
  • The Northern California Illicit Digital Economy (NCIDE) Task Force
  • Announcement

HumboldtFarms

aka Purefiremeds

  • William James Farber, Michael Angelo Palma, Richard Martinson, Brian Lemons, Michele Pickerel
  • Silk Road, Agora, Abraxas, AlphaBay
  • Cannabis
  • California, US
  • USA FBI, USPIS
  • August 16, 2016
  • 1:17-mj-00124

HundredsUK

aka Hundredsandthousands, Sundaefundae, and 100and1000s

IcyDicy

aka GXAW

Insta

John_

  • The Majestic Garden

KeepTheDopeAlive

aka GoodDopeUSA

  • Christopher Harris aka Christopher Harris-Edmundson
  • Heroin and methamphetamine
  • Dream (GoodDopeUSA), White House Market, ToRReZ, Versus, Dark0de
  • Los Angeles, California
  • Homeland Security Investigations, United States Postal Inspection Service
  • Convicted for GoodDopeUSA in 2019.
  • Investigated KeepTheDopeAlive in 2021.
  • “Guilty Plea Imminent” in “GoodDopeUSA” Case

Killwill

aka KillWill2

  • Anthony Stokes
  • [Markets]
  • Counterfeit Oxycodone
  • Massachusetts, United States
  • FDA-OCI, USPIS, DEA
  • Sold from January 2018
  • Arrested in June 2019
  • Article about the bust

ladyskywalker

  • Name known but not officially announced.
  • Wallstreet Market
  • fentanyl, oxycodone, and hydrocodone
  • California, United States
  • Arrested by the United States Drug Enforcement Agency during the Wallstreet Market takedown.
  • Arrested in May 2019.
  • DEA Press Release

Lågprishandeln

  • Names not released (Seven convicted)
  • Flugsvamp 2.0
  • LSD, cocaine, amphetamine, MDMA, and marijuana
  • Switzerland
  • Swedish authorities
  • November 2016-August 2017
  • News Article

LenasBioLaden

  • Three German citizens;
  • Empire Market, WallStreet Market, Cannazon Market, CGMC, Apollon, Dream, Berlusconi, Nightmare;
  • Marijuana and related products;
  • Upper Franconia, Germany;
  • Arrested by officers with the Upper Franconian Police Headquarters;
  • Two of the three were arrested in July 2020.
  • News article covering the indictment

Lexie

  • Matthew Yensan
  • Silk Road, Alphabay
  • Xanax (pressed alprazolam)
  • North Carolina, United States
  • Drug Enforcement Administration
  • Arrested on September 12, 2017

Marijuanaismymuse

  • (Alleged) James Ellingson
  • SIlk Road
  • meth, heroin, cocaine, LSD, MDMA, and marijuana
  • Vancouver, Canada
  • Royal Canadian Mounted Police and US Authorities
  • Active from November 2011 through October 2013
  • Canadian News Outlet Article

Max Mustermann

  • Christoph K.
  • DIDW
  • Kalashnikovs, SMGs, Glocks
  • Germany
  • BKA

MediMax

  • Maximilian P.
  • Germany
  • August 2017
  • Rehab
  • MZ

MH4LIFE

  • Matthew and Holly Roberts
  • Dream Market, Silk Road, AlphaBay, Darknet Heroes League, Nucleus
  • Fentanyl, MethoxyAcetylFentanyl, other fentanyl analogues, heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, MDMA, LSD, marijuana, Xanax, Oxycodone
  • Texas, United States
  • From 2011 to May 12, 2018
  • Department of Justice Announcement: Guilty Plea

MMM / 3M / moramaru

  • Names have not been disclosed.
  • Alphabay, Hansa, Dream, Valhalla
  • Cocaine, Marijuana, and Ecstasy
  • Berlin, Germany
  • October 2013 – April 2017
  • Primary local media coverage

MotleyFool

  • James Halpin
  • Dream Market, Alphabay
  • Fentanyl
  • Ohio, United States
  • Operation Darkness Falls
    • Drug Enforcement Administration; Federal Bureau of Investigation; Homeland Security Investigations; United States Postal Inspection Service.
  • DoJ: Guilty Plea

Mr.Hotsauce

  • George Anthony Athanasiou, Jona Claudia Faller, Chadwicklee McLean, Cypress Araujo
  • Dream Market
  • fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, ketamine, crack cocaine, MDMA and GHB
  • Ontario, Canada
  • ? – May 24, 2018
  • Royal Canadian Mounted Police Press Release

Mr_Taffy

Note: Mr_Taffy has been marked as identified by law enforcement.

  • Unknown name.
  • CGMC
  • Marijuana
  • The Northern California Illicit Digital Economy (NCIDE) Task Force
  • Announcement

need4speed

Narcoboss

aka DNMKingpin

  • Henry Koffie
  • Alphabay
  • Fentanyl
  • Pennsylvania, USA
  • USA HSI, DEA, USPIS
  • 69701-066 at Sheridan FCI
  • 2:17-mj-00811-RCM

NeverPressedRX

  • William Burgamy IV
  • Empire Market
  • Prescription pharmaceuticals
  • Florida, USA
  • USPIS, FBI
  • Arrested on April 9, 2020
  • Article

Nightmare

[Needs information]

NoStress

aka NoStressDream & NoStressNucleus

NSWGreat

aka Bliss

Nuropolis

  • Unknown

NW Wizard

  • Allen D. Lint
  • Dream Market
  • LSD
  • Tacoma, Washington, United States
  • U.S. Postal Inspection Service; Homeland Security Investigations
  • Active from May 2016 until the April 2018 arrest.
  • DOJ Press Release

Note: NW Wizard and Llamadaddy allegedly shared a pgp key.

OlympusXans

aka OX

OnlyTheFinest

OxyFlight

aka Imperial Royalty

  • Daren Reid
  • Silk Road, WallStreet Market, Apollon, Dream
  • Oxycodone pills, Xanax, and marijuana
  • Fort Lauderdale, Florida
  • Food and Drug Administration – Office of Criminal Investigations (FDA-OCI)
  • Investigated as early as early 2019.
  • Arrest warrant filed on 09/04/2020.
  • Article

OxyGod

OxyMonster

  • Gal Vallerius
  • Dream (and Moderation on Dream), TradeRoute, Evolution
  • Pharma Opioids
  • France
  • FBI, DEA
  • 71037-019 at Miami FDC
  • 1:17-cr-20648
  • Criminal Complaint
  • Release date: 09/15/2034

03welle

  • Boris J
  • SR1,2, BMR, Agora, Sheep, Hydra, Evolution, Nucleus, Abraxas, AlphaBay, Dream Market, Middle-Earth, Crypto Market and East India Company
  • Ecstasy, LSD, 2-CB
  • Berlin, Germany
  • SEK, BKA
  • August 23, 2017
  • German News Article

Panachecak

  • Ryan Kluth
  • Dream Market
  • Fentanyl
  • Ohio, USA
  • Operation Darkness Falls
    • Drug Enforcement Administration; Federal Bureau of Investigation; Homeland Security Investigations; United States Postal Inspection Service.
  • DoJ: Guilty Plea

PhantomLabs

  • Cody Boyd
  • Dream Market
  • testosterone, Deca Durabolin, Anadrol, Anavar, Dianabol, boldenone, cocaine, Xanax
  • California, United States
  • United States Postal Inspection Service, Homeland Security Investigations, Northern California Illicit Digital Economy Task Force
  • Arrested on March 26, 2018
  • Steroid Vendor “Phantomlabs” Sentenced to Three Years in Prison

Pharma-Master

  • Aaron Shamo
  • Alphabay
  • Counterfeit oxycodone and counterfeit Xanax
  • Utah, United States
  • Drug Enforcement Administration; United States Postal Inspection Service; Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigations; FDC-OCI
  • Convicted of crimes under the Kingpin Statute in August 2019
  • Article

Pharmville

  • Hugh Brian Haney
  • Silk Road
  • Oxycodone
  • California, United States
  • Arrested by the Drug Enforcement Administration; Homeland Security Investigations; and Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigations.
  • Sold from 2011 to 2012.
  • Arrested on July 18, 2019
  • DarknetLive Article, DOJ Press Release

Pill Cosby

  • Khlari and Sasha Sirotkin
  • Dream Market, Silk Road 3.1 and Wall Street
  • fentanyl-laced pills
  • North Hollywood, California, USA
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation
  • Arrested in January 2020

Pillpusher

Platinum45

  • Name known but not officially announced.
  • Wallstreet Market
  • methamphetamine, adderall, and oxycodone
  • California, United States
  • Arrested by the United States Drug Enforcement Agency during the Wallstreet Market takedown.
  • Arrested in May 2019.
  • DEA Press Release

playgroundROX

  • Peter Ceplenske
  • Dream
  • Pharma, fentanyl, amphetamine
  • Connecticut, USA
  • DEA, USPIS
  • September 7, 2017
  • DoJ Announcement

Polira

  • Kevin C. Fusco
  • Alphabay
  • MDMA
  • Florida, USA
  • DEA
  • 81314-053 at Montgomery FPC
  • 1:17-cr-20275-UU

Project4

  • Colin McCabe, Toby Woods, and Robert Price
  • AlphaBay, Agora, Abraxas, Valhalla, Middle Earth, Dream, Silk Road, Silk Road 2, Nucleus
  • Buckinghamshire, England
  • FBI, South East Regional Organised Crime Unit
  • cocaine, ketamine and cannabis
  • Sentnenced to Prison in August 2019

ProvenW

Aka Pinged

  • Skylaar D. Ford
  • Alphabay
  • Oregon, USA
  • Homeland Security Investigations
  • Marijuana as ProvenW and MDMA as Pinged
  • KOIN News

QualityWeed

Qu4ntum

  • Ronald Roginsky, Eric Angle, and John Ambrose;
  • Alphabay, Dream, WallStreet, and Olympus
  • Steroids
  • Illinois, USA
  • Investigated by USPIS
  • Sold from January 2015 until November 2018;
  • Indicted, Guilty Pleas

Rangoon

  • Benjamin Burdick, Catilynkyrie Burdick
  • Dark Market, Empire Market
  • Counterfeit xanax pills
  • Florida, USA
  • Investigated by:
    • Citrus County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO);
    • the Food and Drug Administration (FDA);
    • the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI);
    • the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS):
    • and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), CCSO’s Tactical Impact Unit (TIU)
  • Active between April 2019 and October 2020;
  • Counterfeit Xanax Vendor “Rangoon” Sentenced to Prison

RaptureReloaded

  • Joanna De Alba
  • WallStreet Market
  • Heroin and Methamphetamine
  • Southern California
  • Investigated by the DEA
  • Sold from ?-2018 through May 2019
  • Indicted January 1, 2020

Rawjack2

Red Foreigner

  • Name Not Given
  • Market Not Given
  • Items Not Given
  • Germany

RuudNL

  • Name not given
  • Netherlands
  • Dutch National Police

RXChemist

  • Netherlands

SaltnPepper

  • North Holland, NL
  • Fiscale inlichtingen- en opsporingsdienst
  • NOS

Sawgrass

aka Ross4Less and ChristmasTree

  • Daniel Boyd McMonegal
  • Dream Market
  • Marijuana
  • San Luis Obispo and Mariposa, California, United States
  • US Drug Enforcement Agency

SayNoToCustoms

Aka kakashisan

SicknessVersion2

aka 23MightyMouse23, TheSickness

  • Jason Keith Arnold, David Lee White, and Alicia Marie McCoy
  • Dream Marketplace
  • Heroin, Methamphetamine
  • Chandler, Arizona, United States
  • Arrested in February 2019
  • Joint Criminal Opioid Darknet Enforcement Team
  • DEA Article

ShinyFlakes

  • Maximilian S.
  • ShinyFlakes Shop
  • Ecstasy, cocaine, LSD and pharma
  • Germany
  • Seven years Imprisonment

Sinmed

  • Chester Anderson; Jarrette Codde; Ronald Maccarty.
  • Dream Market
  • Alprazolam; heroin; ketamine; fentanyl.
  • New York, USA; New Jersey, USA.
  • New Jersey State Police; the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office; South Brunswick Township Police; the U.S. Secret Service, and the United States Postal Inspection Service.
  • Arrested on April 16, 2019.

Soviet Bear

stoned100

Stone Island1(+)

aka Tony Soprano999

  • Ralph Lailan, Kurt Lailan
  • Silk Road, Silk Road 2, Agora, Alphabay, and Hansa
  • MDMA
  • UK
  • UK Authorities ?
  • 16 years Imprisonment
  • portsmouth.co.uk

SuperTrips

  • Cornelis Jan Slomp
  • Silk Road 1, Silk Road 2.0 and Agora
  • LSD, MDMA, Benzos, Cocaine, Amphetamine
  • ICE-HSI
  • 1:13-cr-00689
  • Charges

Swiss-flakes

  • Unidentified
  • Dream Market
  • Cocaine, MDMA
  • Switzerland
  • Zurich Public Prosecutor’s Office
  • August 2018
  • Press Release

TabletMagic

  • Monique Jodoin
  • Dream Market, OpenBazaar
  • oxycodone, hydrocodone, Suboxone, Subutex, Adderall, Ritalin, morphine, Vyvanse, Xanax.
  • Rhode Island, United States
  • U.S. Postal Inspection Service; U.S. Food & Drug Administration Office of Criminal Investigations
  • Active on Dream since May 4, 2017.
  • Arrested on October 2018.
  • Department of Justice Announcement, Darknetlive Article

TheDrugLlama

  • Melissa Scanlan
  • Dream Market
  • Fentanyl, Birth Control
  • California, USA
  • FDA, DEA, HSI, CPB, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service
  • Active from October 2016 through August 2018.
  • Arrested September 2018
  • Department of Justice Announcement

The Flying Dutchmen

  • Name not given
  • Netherlands
  • Dutch National Police

TheHeineken

  • Name not given
  • Netherlands
  • Dutch National Police

TheHulkster

  • Neil Mannion Richard O’Connor
  • Silk Road
  • LSD, Cannabis, MDMA
  • Ireland
  • Garda Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau though Operation Onymous
  • November 15, 2015
  • UK News Article

TheoryOfHarmony

  • Joseph Davis, Erica Dotson
  • Alphabay
  • Xanax, pressed alprazolam pills
  • Rutherford County, Tennessee
  • United States Postal Inspection Service; Drug Enforcement Administration; Tennessee Bureau of Investigation; Food and Drug Administration
  • Arrested: September 2018.
  • New Article

TheQueensHive

  • Gilberto Melgarejo, Brooke Gray
  • Wall Street Market, Empire Market
  • methamphetamines, fentanyl, heroin, LSD and MDMA
  • Albuquerque, New Mexico
  • Drug Enforcement Administration
  • Arrested on November 14, 2019
  • Pleaded guilty in August and September 2021
  • Two Guilty of Selling Drugs through Empire Market

Topflight

aka Topflight2.0, Signature420, 420toU

  • Anthony Dai Tran
  • Agora, Hansa Market, Empire Market, Dream Market
  • Federal Way, Washington, United States
  • ICE-HSI, USPIS
  • Arrested on June 20, 2019
  • 3:19-CR-00266-MO & 2:19-mj-00274-JLW-1

TrapGod

  • Antonio Tirado, Jeffrey Morales
  • Alphabay, Dream
  • cocaine, LSD, and marijuana
  • New York
  • USA Homeland Security Investigations
  • Operation Dark Gold
  • June 2018

Tripwithscience

  • James Verl Barlow
  • Silk Road 2.0, Empire, Monopoly
  • liquid psychedelic mushrooms
  • Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
  • IRS Criminal Investigation, Federal Bureau of Investigation, USPIS, DEA, HSI
  • Arrested in April 2019
  • Prolific Mushroom Vendor Indicted by the Feds

Trusty Lucky

  • Unreleased Name
  • Undisclosed Market
  • Cocaine
  • France
  • Arrested in November 2019
  • Seine-et-Marne law enforcement
  • French News Article

UKBargins

  • Jake Levene, Lee Childs, and Mandy Christopher Lowther
  • Dream Market
  • Fentanyl, Carfentanil, and dozens of analogues
  • United Kingdom
  • December 1, 2016 – April 30, 2017
  • National Crime Agency Announcement

UKchemSale

Underlinecost

VanillaSurf

aka Staxx and GovUk

  • Andrew Moores, Paul Gregory, and Austin Beckett
  • White House, Tor2Door, ASAP, Versus, Dark0de Reborn
  • cocaine, ecstasy, ketamine, amphetamine, and cannabis
  • Manchester, UK
  • The North West Regional Organised Crime Unit (NWROCU)
  • Arrested in 2021
  • Three Sentenced to Prison in “VanillaSurf” Case

VitaminStore

  • North Holland, NL
  • Fiscale inlichtingen- en opsporingsdienst
  • NOS

WasabiSauced

  • Christina M. Arias
  • Alphabay, Dream Market
  • Fentanyl, methadone, Adderall, Clonazepam, Subsys Fentanyl Spray, and Furanyl Fentanyl
  • United States Postal Inspection Service, Homeland Security Investigations
  • December 2016 - August 2017
  • 2:17-cr-00316-RSL closely connected to 2:17-cr-00218-RSL.

Weed24

  • NL
  • Fed. Prosc. Serv

WhiteDr3ams

  • David Maas
  • Wallstreet Market
  • Ecstasy Pills, Cocaine, Marijuana, Amphetamines
  • Royal Thai Police
  • Arrested in November 2018
  • News Article

XanaxLabs

aka RCQueen; DRXanax; Pasitheas; TheMailMan; WhiteYellowGreen; and XanaxBlotters

  • Arden McCann
  • Alphabay, Agora, Dream, Nucleus, Abraxus, Nightmare, Empire
  • Pressed alprazolam pills, fentanyl
  • Quebec, Canada
  • DEA and RCMP
  • Arrested in February 2019
  • Darknetlive Article

XanaxMan

  • Ryan Farace, Robert Swain
  • Hansa
  • Pressed Alprazolam Pills
  • Homeland Security Investigations |
  • Operation Dark Gold
  • Arrested on June 2018
  • Farace and Swain Pleaded Guilty on October 2, 2018.

XanaxKing

  • Jeremy Donagal
  • Xanax
  • FBI, ICE-HSI, USPIS, DEA, IRS, FDA
  • 19773-111 at Sacramento RRM
    • Released on 06/27/2018.

XanaxKing2

  • Andrew Tablack,
  • Dream Market
  • Counterfeit oxycodone pills (fentanyl, cyclopropyl fentanyl)
  • California
  • Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF)
  • Active from March 2017 through December 2017.
  • XanaxKing2 Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison

Xanscriptz

XTC Express

  • Two Unidentified Suspects
  • Zetten and Arnhem, Netherlands
  • Dutch National Police

Zane61

  • Michael Luciano and Philip Luciano
  • Alphabay
  • Oxycodone, Fentanyl
  • New York, USA
  • ICE-HSI, USPIS
  • Criminal Complaint

1nolefb1

2Happtimes2

  • Sam Bent, Djeneba Bent
  • Hansa, Dream, OpenBazaar
  • LSD, Marijuana, MDMA
  • Homeland Security Investigations; United States Postal Investigation Service
  • Vermont, USA
  • Sold from 2017 until April 2018
  • Five years in prison
  • Announcement, Article

420merchant

Note: 420merchant has been marked as identified by law enforcement.

  • Unknown name.
  • Dream Market, Wallstreet Market, Wickr
  • Marijuana
  • The Northern California Illicit Digital Economy (NCIDE) Task Force
  • Announcement

Disputed

AlwaysOvrWeight

Change-log

2020-02-08 - Added CHANG1927

2020-01-29 - Added UKchemSale

2020-01-22 - Added Bushplanet and DonkeyKong

2020-01-07 - Added RaptureReloaded, Qu4ntum

2019-12-19 - Added SayNoToCustoms

2019-12-11 - Removed Colucci after receiving a signed message proving he had control of his PGP keys.