Teecht. Nighttime Spider Web Vendor Sentenced To 108 Months Inward Prison Theatre For Narcotics Trafficking In Addition To Coin Laundering Charges

Adam Lemar Miles, a/k/a “NoStress,” 46, was sentenced today yesteryear U.S. District Judge Ursula M. Ungaro to a full of 108 months inward prison, to hold out followed yesteryear iv years of supervised release. 

Benjamin G. Greenberg, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Adolphus P. Wright, Special Agent inward Charge, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Miami Field Office; Michael J. De Palma, Acting Special Agent inward Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI); Antonio J. Gomez, Inspector inward Charge, U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), Miami Field Office; Mark Selby, Special Agent inward Charge, U.S. Immigration too Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI), Miami Field Office; Ari C. Shapira, Special Agent inward Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms too Explosives (ATF), Miami Field Office; too Robert F. Lasky, Special Agent inward Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), made the announcement.

Miles previously pled guilty to i count of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance, inward violation of Title 21, U.S. Code, Section 846; 3 counts of distribution of a controlled substance, inward violation of Title 21, U.S. Code, Section 841(a)(l); too i count of conspiracy to commit coin laundering, inward violation of Title 18, U.S. Code, Section 1956(h). As business office of his plea agreement, Miles agreed to forfeit a shotgun, a rifle, 2 pistols, a revolver, several hundred rounds of ammunition, too $61,872 inward seized U.S. currency.

According to publicly filed courtroom documents, agents were investigating vendors who apply Dark Web marketplaces to advertise too distribute controlled substances.  Agents identified a vendor amongst variations of the moniker “NoStress” who was advertising controlled substances, including methamphetamine too hydrocodone, on nighttime spider web marketplaces. On 3 divide occasions, agents purchased too received seven grams of methamphetamine, eleven hydrocodone pills, too xiv grams of crystal methamphetamine from vendor accounts operated yesteryear Miles on the nighttime web.

On Jan 10, 2018, a search warrant was executed on Miles’ habitation inward Riverside, California.  Evidence recovered from Miles’ habitation exposed the accused every bit the vendor known every bit “NoStress.”  Additional prove revealed Miles had distributed at to the lowest degree 350 grams of methamphetamine on the nighttime web, since 2015.

This example is the final result of the ongoing efforts yesteryear the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (“OCDETF”), a partnership betwixt federal, terra firma too local police line enforcement agencies. The OCDETF mission is to identify, investigate, too prosecute members of drug trafficking enterprises, bringing together the combined expertise too unique abilities of federal, terra firma too local police line enforcement.

Mr. Greenberg commended the investigative efforts of the DEA, Miami too Riverside, California Field Offices; IRS-CI, Miami Field Office; USPIS, Miami Field Office; ICE-HSI, Miami Field Office; ATF, Miami too Riverside, California Field Offices; too the FBI, Miami Field Office.  Mr. Greenberg every bit good thanked the staff of the U.S Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California for their assistance.  The example was prosecuted yesteryear Assistant U.S. Attorney Breezye Telfair.