Eight Los Angeles County men are facing federal conspiracy charges alleging that they are behind two trafficking rings that sold drugs over the so-called darknet and shipped them across the country inside stuffed animals and other children’s toys.
Eight Los Angeles County men are facing federal charges that they sold illegal drugs on darknet marketplaces and concealed them in children's toys to ship them to buyers.
The five men who were arrested this month are free on bail. If convicted, they each face a maximum sentence of life in federal prison, according to the U.S. attorney’s office. Undercover investigators bought drugs from Aeirla 26 times between March 2017 and December 2018. In a two-month stretch last year, the group conducted more than 2,200 online sales, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
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