One of the largest-ever dark web drug-peddling operations — raking in $7.2 million through cryptocurrency exchanges — has been shut down, Manhattan prosecutors said.
One of the largest-ever dark web drug-peddling operations — raking in $7.2 million through cryptocurrency exchanges — has been shut down, and its Queens ringleader and three others charged, Manhattan prosecutors said.
Named in the indictment along with Wu were accomplices Peng Peng Tang, Bowen Chen, Zixian Lin, and U.S. Postal Services employee Katie Montgomery.Manhattan District Attorney's Office Wu, 35, originally based operations in Flushing, where more than 10,000 packages were shipped. In April 2022, he moved his operations to Upland, Calif.
Between June 2021 and August 2022, undercover Manhattan D.A. investigators made 11 purchases from FireBunny.The drugs that were purchased includes cocaine, MDMA, and Ketamine, which were shipped to Manhattan, prosecutors said.Investigators executed a search warrant on Wu’s Flushing apartment in July 2022, when he was arrested and taken into federal custody on an open warrant for prior drug charges, prosecutors said.nearly $900,00 worth of cryptocurrency on TANG’s phone.
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