Tyler Pham, Conspiracy to Distribute Meth, Virginia 2021

A Fairfax man was sentenced to 52 months in prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine via the darknet.

Alexander ‘Tyler’ Pham, 39, was sentenced to 52 months in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute between 15 and 45 kilograms of pills containing methamphetamine via the darknet.

Pham used the moniker ‘addy4cheap’ on darknet markets, the Empire Market and Cryptonia, to distribute peach tablets advertised as Adderall, but in fact containing methamphetamine, nationwide through the U.S. mail.

Between August 2019 and December 2019, law enforcement agents conducted 20 controlled purchases from ‘addy4cheap’ on both markets for a total of 767 peach tablets received, weighing approximately 268 grams total.

On Dec. 9, 2019, search warrants were executed at Pham and his co-conspirators’ residences, including the homes of Lien Kim Thi Phan, 37, Fairfax, and Hon Lam Luk, 35, Chantilly.

As of Dec. 10, 2019, ‘addy4cheap’ had completed 3,665 sales on the Empire Market and received 2,568 reviews. Based on these reviews, ‘addy4cheap’ had received approximately $482,572.10 in sales for an approximate 44,872 pills sold.

Pham’s six co-conspirators – Phan and Duong Nguyen, 29, of Springfield; Son Nguyen, 36, of Annandale; Dat Nguyen, 37 of Alexandria; Trieu Hoang, 39, of Springfield; along with Luk – all previously entered guilty pleas in connection with the conspiracy and were sentenced to over 13 years in prison combined.

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