Slovakian man tied to darknet market sentenced 16 years in federal prison

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) – A man from Slovakia was sentenced Thursday in federal court after he admitted to conspiracy to sell drugs and assisting in maintaining a darknet site.

Alan Bill, 33, of Bratislava, Slovakia, was sentenced to 200 months in prison by Eastern District of Missouri Judge Christian M. Stevens. Bill had previously pleaded guilty in January to one count of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances.

As part of his plea, U.S. prosecutors say Bill admitted to assisting in maintaining and operating a darknet website named Kingdom by providing web-administration services…

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