ALEXANDRIA, Va. (DC News Now) — Four men from Massachusetts were sentenced in Alexandria for selling counterfeit pills across the U.S. on a darknet marketplace.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO) for the Eastern District of Virginia said Wednesday that Daniel John Blaney, 28; Kenneth Emmanuel Lora, 27; David Robert Kable Jr., 27; and Javier Alexander Bermudez, 31, all from Lynn, Massachusetts, all worked together in a “massive conspiracy” to make and sell pills laced with fentanyl, N-pyrrolidino etonitazene (Pyro), methamphetamine, and Bromazolam.
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Court documents state that the group would transport kilograms of these pills from the Northeast U.S. to New York before selling them mainly through darknet marketplaces. The conspirators would use the U.S. Postal Service to ship these pills to people across the nation.
The USAO said that the men would use industrial pill presses to make fake Oxycodone, Adderall and Xanax pills. Each batch contained different illicit substances…