Two men charged with importing fent pills that they were selling on the dark net

http://nj1015.com/2-charged-with-trying-to-sell-500k-fentanyl-pills-for-bitcoin-in-monmouth-county/

NEWARK -- Two men who police say are responsible for attempting to bring in more than half a million pills of the potentially lethal drug fentanyl to the state are now in custody.

The undercover investigation leading to the arrest of Andrew Tablack, 26, of Beverly Hills, California, and Stephan Durham, 43, of Altadena, California, started in August, according to Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick. At that time, a search warrant was executed at a home in Monmouth County where Drug Enforcement Agency agents found a variety of drugs including close to 300,000 cyclopropyl fentanyl pills that Tablack had shipped to New Jersey.

Fentanyl has been shown to be 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine and is now at the heart of New Jersey's opioid overdose epidemic. While it can be laced with heroin, it is becoming more common as a standalone drug.

Tablack, according to Fitzpatrick, arranged the distribution of the drugs over the so-called Dark Web to locations all over the country. He also took payments for the drugs with bitcoin, a cryptocurrency that Fitzpatrick said is becoming more common in drug deals.

In addition to the pills found at the home in Monmouth County, Fitzpatrick said a package sent by Tablack was intercepted in September. Agents said it contained 226,520 pills, or more than 40 pounds of the drug.

Fitzpatrick said Tablack also had a pill production facility, using drugs he had shipped in from a lab in China that disguised the delivery as food and beauty products.

Tablack and Durham have both been charged with one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of cyclopropyl fentanyl. Tablack is also charged with distribution of 400 grams or more of the drug. The charges carry a minimum sentence of 10 years in prison, with a maximum sentence of life in prison and a fine of $10 million.

They are trash.


Comments


[17 Points] gangsterdam020:

As long as they sold it as Fent, whats up?


[7 Points] ISnortCars:

I have been seeing cyclopropyl fentanyl pop up in these busts recently. Before a few weeks ago I'd never heard of it in my life, and I have seen/heard of a ton of fent analogues. I assume most of those fent pressed pills arent actually pressed with fent hcl since the China ban but some kind of analogue, but have never seen this one before these recent busts.

Maybe it's the new analogue since china banned MAF and a bunch of others, as well as USA schedule 1'ing a bunch etc. China always tends to manufacture a new (or just popularize one that's been around for a while but hasn't been introduced to the public yet) every time a ban happens, so this must be it?

Anyone know anything about it? Seems to be less potent than hcl but strong enough to where it's passable.

Anyway enough about that, as much as I hate that fent is demonized in the media and by the government, especially given that the US gov really let this shit happen from decades of over prescribing and being in the pockets of big pharma, I think people who press fent pills are about as scummy as it gets.

I'm all for being able to choose what you ingest as an adult, but that's the issue. Most of these guys are pressing roxies or another opioid pill with fent. Even if they tell people it's fent on the initial sale, people just buy from them in bulk and sell it as roxies or whatever it's pressed as.

Sorry for the rant, but if you press fent pills you're a fucking scumbag, and you better believe you've killed a shit load of people. It's one thing if someone ODs on heroin or oxy knowing it's heroin or oxy. It's another thing when someone takes an oxy thinking it's oxy but it's actually fent and dies.

I'm very against the war on drugs in 99% of cases, and penalties are way too harsh in general, but these fuckers should get life.


[1 Points] boomfrom1t-r:

good bust


[1 Points] GirlsDontLikeIce:

Fentanyl caused us so many problems.


[1 Points] br0ken1985:

There's plenty of people who actually want fent. I used to have a pretty substantial fent habit (was always pharmaceutical though) and although nowhere near as euphoric as oxycodone, it kills pain like no other opiate could ever dream of. Point being, sell it as what it actually is, dammit. People will still buy it.