One of the dark sides of cryptocurrencies is that they can be used illegally on the dark web.

Recently, a man named “Sky Justin Gornik” from San Diego, California was arrested at his home on charges of selling illegal materials on the dark web.

The charges against “Gornik” admitted all of them and admitted his guilt.

The criminal provided illegal narcotic substances such as:

Fentanyl, carfentanil, ketamine and oxycodone are all strictly prohibited by the US government.

Offered for sale on the dark web for cryptocurrency

The arrest was not only against “Gornik”, but also extended to the arrest and detention of the “supplier” who was providing narcotics to “Gornik”, a man named “Stephen Wallace George” from Oklahoma

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Where the police raided his home to find a laboratory where “George” was producing illegal substances from pure fentanyl imported from China.

Guernick will be sentenced to 70 months (5 years and 10 months) in state prison and the cryptocurrency he owned and used for George’s payments will be confiscated.

According to the offender, all the cryptocurrencies that he owned were directly related to the drug trade and for their safekeeping he used trading platforms (Bitrex, Poloniex).

According to the report, the method of arresting the criminals was not disclosed

Except to indicate that the US Homeland Security conducted its investigations and tracked the communications and messages of criminals.

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