UK vendor duo jailed. The pair sold fentanyl and mixed opioids freely without "any consideration to the welfare of their customers".

Full article with photos of the operation: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41361137

Ross Brennan, 28, and Aarron Gledhill, 30, made hundreds of thousands of pounds mixing and selling the high-strength painkiller and other drugs.

Brennan and Gledhill, both from Huddersfield, pleaded guilty to drug and money laundering offences. Brennan was jailed for 13 years and eight months while Gledhill was sentenced to three years and nine months.

The two men ran a "sophisticated online drug dealing business" from Brennan's flat in York and a property in Huddersfield

North Yorkshire Police uncovered the operation when a neighbour raised concerns for the welfare of Brennan, who has autism. Det Supt Steve Thomas said: "What we found was a production laboratory for synthetic drugs and more traditional drugs. "[We also found] computer equipment that over the weeks and months revealed a sophisticated drug dealing business operating on the dark web under the guise of a business called 'Savage Henry'."

Brennan and Gledhill, who met at university in Huddersfield, made up to £1,000 a day operating the illegal online supermarket for two years on a site called AlphaBay, which has since been closed down. The duo bought, mixed and sold the drugs, including fentanyl crystal meth and cocaine, using a copy of Chemistry for Dummies before posting them on to people across the UK. They sourced the drugs by post from Vietnam, the USA, Canada, the Netherlands, Belgium, Ukraine, Poland and Mexico. The force said it could only estimate the number of transactions that took place as they used data-shredding software, but the site had received more than 4,000 reviews. Their operation was said to be worth between £275,000 and £1.5m, depending on the fluctuating value of the virtual currency Bitcoin they traded in.

Det Supt Thomas said: "These are two individuals who clearly didn't give any consideration to the welfare of their customers. They were only interested in the profit. "These are people who had downloaded a 'Chemistry for Dummies' guide and then sent out potentially dangerous substances, that on any occasion could have resulted in a serious impact on someone's health or even death."
He said Brennan would exaggerate his autism and present himself as someone who "struggled to cope with normal life and society" but was really a "sophisticated criminal who was trying to pull the wool over a number of agencies' eyes".

Officers had discovered encrypted messages from Brennan in which he "pretended to be more ill than he was". "They also knew that what they were selling was potentially dangerous, that's the thing that really put a chill through the investigation team," Dept Supt Thomas said. During their investigation police discovered a Skype message from Brennan to Gledhill in which he said he knew there were "bodies out there on me".

Four people who bought drugs from Brennan and Gledhill have died, police said, but they added they could not prove if their deaths were directly linked to the Savage Henry website. Brennan, of Great Northern Street, and Gledhill, of Almondbury Bank, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import class A drugs, conspiracy to sell class A drugs and concealing criminal property. Brennan also admitted three charges of making indecent images and one of distributing indecent images. He has been put on the sex offenders register for 10 years.


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[50 Points] None:

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[31 Points] TradingRealGfForRsGf:

Hang your local fent dealer.


[24 Points] bfsco:

I like how they call it a sophisticated operation but the pictures of their flat make it look like a bunch of apes trying to press and package orders. I don't know where they got their definition of sophisticated but this certainly is the worst example of sophistication.


[17 Points] 303keysofacid:

called 'Savage Henry'

Should get some time reduced for the Fear and Loathing inspired name :D


[5 Points] -Soul-Assassin-:

I doubt they made anywhere near as much as the police estimated.

Poor fucker couldn't even afford a bed for his mattress.


[4 Points] Joskins:

"[We also found] computer equipment that over the weeks and months revealed a sophisticated drug dealing business operating on the dark web under the guise of a business called 'Savage Henry'."

A scag "baron" named Savage Henry... imagine that. I would guess they were this vendor.

Search for "savagehenry".


[4 Points] ThrowawayforDNM23456:

Ok, Brennan was on AB and the post ends with him being on a sex offenders list.

I think I know why one dude, with Autism, got 13 years and the other got 3.


[-1 Points] None:

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[-5 Points] Davidoff1983:

Indecent fucking images. England really is 1984ing it up these days.