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Cocaine Bust Shows How Close the Dark Web and Street Crime Really Are
    #23738682 - 10/14/16 10:19 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

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When police arrested Benjamin Bricker at his house in Lubbock, Texas in June, they found cocaine, a 9mm semi-automatic pistol, a shotgun, counterfeit currency, and indications of a modest drug-peddling operation.

Those discoveries might not really have stood out by themselves, but what made Bricker’s case different is that investigators suspected he purchased drugs from the so-called dark web, to then sell for a profit on the street. Although academic research has found that much of the dark web drug trade is likely between vendors rather than sold directly to users, it’s not often that a case so starkly demonstrates the close relationship between marketplaces on the Tor network and more traditional drug crime.

The investigation started like many other normal busts: the police gave a confidential informant an audio bug to wear, and $450 in marked funds to purchase cocaine from the suspect, according to a search warrant in Bricker’s case. The document was shared with Motherboard by Gabriel Monte, a reporter from the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, which first reported the indictment against Bricker on Wednesday.

Shortly after the undercover buy, the Lubbock Police Department, along with a SWAT team, searched Bricker’s residence, suspecting him of selling narcotics. According to the search warrant, the house contained four surveillance cameras, presumably to monitor the residence for any intruders.

After investigators searched Bricker’s home, they forensically examined his mobile phone.

“The forensic examination yielded web history and saved files indicating Benjamin Bricker was using the ‘dark web’ or ‘onion web’ to purchase cocaine from overseas suppliers,” the search warrant continued. (The documents says investigators found two iPhones, although it does not say what model or operating system either was running).

“Affiant observed photographs of ‘dark web’ pages for advertised cocaine using bitcoin as payments. Affiant observed bitcoin drug ledgers in Benjamin Bricker’s possession. Affiant knows through training and experience it is common for narcotics traffickers to use the ‘dark web’ or ‘onion web’ to order illegal narcotics and have them delivered using bitcoin as the currency,” the search warrant continues. A police K-9 also indicated it found drugs in a package that Bricker’s former landlord had kept hold of, after he suspected Bricker of dealing drugs.

The agent who wrote that affidavit is right: much of the trade on the dark web is from dealers looking to get supplies for their own operation. Research published in May 2014 from Judith Aldridge at the University of Manchester, and David Décary-Hétu from the University of Montreal, said, “We found that a substantial proportion of transactions on Silk Road are best characterised as ‘business-to-business’, with sales in quantities and at prices typically of purchases made by drug dealers sourcing stock.”

“With the key Silk Road customers actually drug dealers sourcing stock for local street operations, we were witnessing a new breed of retail drug dealer, equipped with a technological subcultural capital skill set for sourcing stock,” the researchers add.

The creation of dark web marketplaces, where users and dealers can purchase a huge range of narcotics with a relatively high degree of anonymity, has been a paradigm shift in the drug trade. But don’t forget that it’s never too far from the old trade, too.


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Re: Cocaine Bust Shows How Close the Dark Web and Street Crime Really Are [Re: tdubz] * 1
    #23738737 - 10/14/16 10:50 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Did they think drugs never got sold retail lol???  Dumb cops


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Re: Cocaine Bust Shows How Close the Dark Web and Street Crime Really Are [Re: Cognitive_Shift]
    #23738835 - 10/14/16 11:35 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

And I'm sure most of the amount of drugs are sold to be resold...but the number of transaction probably are mostly to users. And the more people who get their drugs off the net the less that buy them on the street...it was even still better that this guy was using the web than dealing with a higher level dealer on the street.

And if they would legalize and regulate the drug market they could prevent bulk sales of all drugs and make sure dangerous dealers don't exist at all. If you want to talk about minimizing harm you can't even consider anything other than legalization and regulation.


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Re: Cocaine Bust Shows How Close the Dark Web and Street Crime Really Are [Re: Coolwhip GA] * 1
    #23739015 - 10/15/16 01:18 AM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Yeah because buying drugs person to person is so much safer:rolleyes:


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Re: Cocaine Bust Shows How Close the Dark Web and Street Crime Really Are [Re: Konyap]
    #23739521 - 10/15/16 09:12 AM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Anything that can't be done in 60 years a failure! Narcs can't stop drugs from getting into jails its a joke. Imagine what it is like to be a Narc first off you have to hide you face like the criminal you are. Second you have to arrest people who are not hurting anyone just enjoying life like 90 percent of drug users. Nacres must hate themselves unless they are fascist misanthropes. Narcs just take people's freedom in the future they should be arrested and jailed for their crimes just like the Jews did to the Nazis. Stoners who have ever been arrested should get to charge the pigs and prosecutors with the crime of oppression. NO Joke this is what happened to the fucking Nazis after they lost power and mark my words this is what is going to happen when prohibition ends. The clock is ticking and the DEA is shitting because they know we are coming for you lying fucks! And like the Nazis narcs can clam you were only following orders, but that did not stop the allies from hanging the mother fuckers by the neck until dead! History repeats any Narc out there better fucking run and hide.


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Re: Cocaine Bust Shows How Close the Dark Web and Street Crime Really Are [Re: Cognitive_Shift]
    #23740501 - 10/15/16 05:34 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

Cognitive_Shift said:
Did they think drugs never got sold retail lol???  Dumb cops



Exactly what im saying I know for a fact its very common too have used SR to then deal idiot FEDS. :homerdoh3:


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Re: Cocaine Bust Shows How Close the Dark Web and Street Crime Really Are [Re: mushiefeet]
    #23740681 - 10/15/16 07:19 PM (7 years, 3 months ago)

I think whats really stupid is they are acting like its suprising illegal drugs are being bought on the black market to then be flipped on the black market...

:doublefacepalm:

Well DUHHH, this is all a product of the war on drugs. People wouldn't be buying RC's to sell if drugs were legal and everyone could just get em themselves.


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Re: Cocaine Bust Shows How Close the Dark Web and Street Crime Really Are [Re: musiclover420]
    #23742001 - 10/16/16 10:25 AM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

“We found that a substantial proportion of transactions on Silk Road are best characterised as ‘business-to-business’, with sales in quantities and at prices typically of purchases made by drug dealers sourcing stock.”




Notice the use of legitimate terms, above.

Ok, when they do it:
peddle a controlled substance or it's analog
small arms and the use of force
hypothecate fiat currency, sometimes as a digital placeholder or derivative.
encrypted communications / lack of transparency


The same, physical acts (probably on a smaller scale) become ethical or unethical, based on intonation, context, and rhetoric.


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Re: Cocaine Bust Shows How Close the Dark Web and Street Crime Really Are [Re: durian_2008]
    #23744352 - 10/17/16 02:01 AM (7 years, 3 months ago)

Coke and street crime and dark webs are so connected!  OMG

These people who write this shit need LESS drugs in their lives.  They don't sound sane at all.


Edited by Onlylivingboy (10/17/16 02:10 AM)


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