Seattle man sentenced for dark web drug trafficking
ST. LOUIS - A Seattle man was sentenced Thursday to nearly three years in prison for trafficking drugs from the dark web.
The U.S. District Court in St. Louis, Missouri sentenced 29-year-old Maximillian Verbowsky to 30 months in prison and a $10,000 fine, followed by three years of supervised release.
According to court records, Verbowsky used cryptocurrency to buy bulk quantities of counterfeit alprazolam — also sold under the brand name Xanax — from the dark web, then resold them.
Court docs say Verbowsky bought 630,000 pills between Oct. 2019 and Aug. 2021, using a pill press and other drug ingredients to mimic markings used by real drug manufacturers.
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Verbowsky pleaded guilty in June to conspiracy to sell counterfeit drugs, selling counterfeit drugs and using a fictitious name on mail to commit a crime.
