Willems, Evron, Jonathan Colbeck, Brian Colbeck, and Rawls have also been charged with the distribution of LSD, which carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. They were arrested at their respective homes in the US: Iowa, Michigan, Georgia, New York, New Jersey, and Florida.Īccording to the DEA, the marketplace operators screened all sources of supply and guaranteed delivery of the drugs, also handling all communications between their suppliers and customers.įor that, the operators charged a commission, based on order value.Įach defendant is charged with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, which carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, and money laundering conspiracy, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years imprisonment. The other suspects were Jonathan Colbeck, Brian Colbeck, Ryan Rawls, Jonathan Dugan, George Matzek, and Charles Bigras. The day before, police in Bogota, Colombia, arrested the second defendant, Michael Evron, a United States citizen who lives in Argentina, as he tried to leave Colombia. On the morning of April 16, police in Lelystad, Netherlands, arrested the lead defendant, Marc Willems, at his home. The indictment charges that The Farmer’s Market was paid through Western Union, Pecunix, PayPal, I-Golder, and in cash.Ī press release from the DEA said that between January 2007 and October 2009 alone, two of the defendants processed some 5,256 orders valued at about $1,041,244, via the gang’s multiple marketplaces.Ĭustomers came from some 34 countries and all 50 US states. The bust was led by the US Drug Enforcement Administration and was the result of “Operation Adam Bomb”, that had spanned more than two years and included help from from authorities in the Netherlands, Columbia, and Scotland and federal, state, and local US authorities in New York, Iowa, Georgia, Florida, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Michigan and New Jersey. Tor, a free, open-source program, bestows online anonymity via a circuit of multilayered, encrypted connections routed through a worldwide volunteer network of servers in order to conceal a user’s location or usage from anyone conducting network surveillance or traffic analysis. The indictment alleges that The Farmer’s Market, which was previously known as Adamflowers, hid its tracks by operating on the Tor network.
A multinational police force last week arrested eight men on suspicion of running a secret online store called “The Farmer’s Market” that sold more than $1 million worth of narcotics, including LSD, ecstasy, fentanyl, mescaline, ketamine, DMT, and high-end marijuana.Īccording to a 66-page, 12-count indictment that was unsealed last Monday, The Farmer’s Market provided a fully functional e-commerce experience, including a storefront, order forms, online forums, customer service, and various payment methods for the different sources of supply.
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