Manhattan DA Indicts Dark Web Drug Dealers for Laundering $2.3 Million in Bitcoin
By CCN.com: The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office indicted three men for allegedly laundering $2.3 million in crypto by using debit cards pre-loaded with bitcoin and withdrawing large amounts of cash at ATMs in New York and New Jersey.
The trio was also charged with operating bogus storefronts on the dark web that sold illegal drugs, including counterfeit Xanax tablets, the DA’s Office announced in a statement.
Money-Laundering and Criminal Drug Sales
Chester Anderson, Jarrett Codd, and Ronald MacCarty were indicted with multiple felonies, including money-laundering, identity theft, and criminal sale of a controlled substance to buyers in 43 states.
Orange buckets filled with counterfeit Xanax pills were seized in the bust, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. (Photo: Manhattan DA)
Counterfeit Drugs and Crypto Seized At Drug Dens
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said this crackdown was the largest pill seizure in New Jersey’s history.
In addition to seizing thousands of dollars in bitcoin at the defendants’ drug dens, authorities seized the following:
20,000 to 620,000 alprazolam tablets.
500 glassines of fentanyl-laced heroin.
Methamphetamine.
Ketamine.
Gamma hydroxybutyric acid.
D.A. Warns Money Launders: ‘You Are On Notice’
Authorities said the counterfeit pills, which were stored in orange buckets, had a street value of $3 million. District Attorney Cyrus Vance warned money launderers and dark web operators that the law will hunt them down.
