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A 49-year-old Soviet-born fugitive, Janusz Pachomow, used the dark web to orchestrate a massive fentanyl and ecstasy trafficking operation, shipping deadly packages across the US through the mail.
Pachomow, an illegal alien, enlisted co-conspirators from Europe and Australia to help him peddle the poison. He’d receive encrypted orders via email and then mail out the goods from his New Bern, NC home office, often using random local businesses as return addresses.
But it was a suspicious package intercepted by German customs officials that finally cracked the case. Inside, cops found over 15 pounds of ecstasy pills shaped like Homer Simpson and Kim Jong-Un, cleverly hidden inside a water heater.
Law enforcement tracked the operation back to Pachomow’s doorstep, where they found a stash of fentanyl, methamphetamine, and other paraphernalia. His elderly mother, it turns out, was even an unwitting accomplice, ferrying her son to the post office to mail out the packages.
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📋 Key Facts
- Crime: Drug Trafficking
- Defendant: North Carolina
- Location: NC
- Source: DOJ Press Release
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