[PSA/Article] Hyannis Man Charged With Bitcoin Purchase of Firearm and Silencer on 'Darknet'

As alleged in the criminal complaint, a Darknet Market website is an online market that operates outside the parameters of the traditional Internet, allowing individuals anonymity to buy and sell illegal items, such as firearms and drugs. Such transactions are often conducted for bitcoins. The complaint alleges that beginning in January 2015, Moreira engaged a federal undercover agent in a series of online messages during which Moreira inquired about the potential purchase of several different firearms. Ultimately, Moreira allegedly ordered a Walther PPK/S .380 caliber pistol and silencer from the agent for which he paid the equivalent of $2,500 in Bitcoins. Moreira instructed the agent to ship the package to a Post Office box in Hyannis. Federal agents monitoring the Post office box immediately arrested Moreira after he retrieved the package this morning.

http://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/hyannis-man-charged-bitcoin-purchase-firearm-and-silencer-darknet

Edit: The criminal complain is not available yet

Justin Moreira's previous arrest from 2012:

a multitude of drugs including baggies of powdered Ketamine and Ecstasy, and over 90 oxycontin pills that were illegally possessed by Moreira. In addition, Detectives seized over $30,000 in U.S. currency and various other items including a digital scale and clear gelatin capsules used for drug distribution

http://www.barnstablepolice.com/press_release/12_08_03-Hyannis-Man-Arrested-Had-Drugs-and-$30K.pdf


Comments


[13 Points] CocaineNose:

looks like he got honeydicked hard.


[11 Points] Coveredbluelight:

So basically, the market for a legit firearms vendor is wide open.


[8 Points] AgoraMarket:

Further evidence that practically every firearms seller on DNMs is either a scammer or an undercover agent.

Wonder on which market this took place. Is there a PDF file of the actual criminal complaint?


[3 Points] Einsteins_Lovechild:

The FBI should use more of its giant pile of tax money on internal investigations rather than inventing imaginary "crimes" and "terrorist plots" and spending weeks/months/years trying to find easily manipulated victims to "conspire" with them. There are plenty of real criminals working at the FBI already. They don't need to create new ones to arrest.

I've been paying attention to this for a couple years and I swear, every single time you see news of the FBI stopping a criminal conspiracy (most often it is a "planned terrorist attack"), the FBI came up with the idea first and then recruited people to join. In DPR case it was thrown in to make sure they could get a life sentence, but in other cases the ONLY charges files relate to plots concocted by law enforcement.

Dateline NBC stopped doing those fabulously entertaining internet pedo busts after the cases started getting thrown out due to entrapment and/or the defendants not having actually committed a crime yet when they got arrested. I guess FBI is just smart enough to make sure they go through with a crime first. Like the South Park cop undercover tranny hooker I'm sure.


[2 Points] InfinitelyOutThere:

Good rundown. I always wonder, why not buy IRL


[2 Points] GPJdnmTA:

He must have been a felon. Otherwise there's no need to pay 2500 for a 400$ gun, a 300$ suppressor and the 200$ tax stamp plus up to 25$ transfer fee.


[2 Points] Big_Daddy_Trucknutz:

Shit, $2500 for a PPK and a can? Have these guys never been to the south?


[2 Points] None:

this man has done no crime. Drugs and Guns should be a right in a free society.


[1 Points] EvilPenguinsOnMeth:

It's harder to find guns on cape than you think, especially the more East you go of Hyannis. Its not very big so word gets around quickly. You're better of trying Falmouth, Wareham or even New Bedford, then try Boston.


[1 Points] None:

This is why we don't discuss warez on reddit


[1 Points] gwern:

Update: 16 other arrests linked to this one: https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/35ytiw/17_arrests_due_to_flipped_agora_seller_weaponsguy/