Two Darknet Cases in Upper Austria Only Days Apart

After “extensive” research, officials explained, the Gallneukirchen Police Department collected enough evidence to incarcerate a 25-year-old drug dealer. Authorities knew the suspect had frequently ordered drugs from vendors on the darknet. They knew that he ordered definitely from vendors in the Netherlands and within Germany. In spite of the police’s suspicions, the suspect denied all accusations and avoided detention.

Police learned that the 25-year-old repeatedly ordered MDMA, amphetamines, ketamine, and ecstasy pills. The drugs came through the mail from the Netherlands, for the most part. But also from Germany in some instances.

Police first discovered that the suspect purchased drugs as a dropshipper of sorts. Later, they discovered that he ordered drugs for stereotypical drug dealing. Along with the also stereotypical personal use. Investigators decided, with permission from the public prosecutor, to investigate the suspect’s customers.

The customer route ultimately resulted in success for the Gallneukirchen police and investigators. They spoke with—or interrogated—the customers until someone spoke. And once that someone revealed the information the the police needed, they made the arrest.

Just days until August, the 25-year-old heard his sentence read aloud before at the Regional Court of Linz: 10 months imprisonment.

Not but two days later, the LPD issued another press release, this time about a 21-year-old from Vöcklabruck. The prosecution, due to evidence procured by the criminal police in Vöcklabruck, proved the 21-year-old ordered drugs from darknet marketplaces. And, not only ordered them for his friends or for personal use, but also ordered them for resale.

From vendors on the darknet, the individual ordered amphetamine, MDMA, ecstasy pills, and LSD tabs. He made similar choices as the 25-year-old before him had made—prior to arrest and incarceration, however.

The suspect allowed police to search his residence where they located 234 ecstasy pills, along with various drugs in smaller quantities. During the subsequent interrogation, the 21-year-old admitted that he ordered ”250 pieces ecstasy tablets from the Darknet to sell them profitably to third parties.”

He added that an order with 10 grams of MDMA was still in the mail, en route to his house. The package that he referred to had already arrived on July 27. The public prosecutor’s office found the 21-year-old, along with several of his customers, guilty of several unannounced drug crimes. Officials released little else, same for the possibility that some of the customers may have been minors.