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Brandon Adams, a 27-year-old Missouri man known online as BenzoBoys, has been sentenced to 24 months in prison for selling millions of counterfeit Xanax pills on the dark web. A federal judge ordered him to pay nearly $1 million and an additional $10,000 in fines.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Adams organized his counterfeit pill operation from a remote lakeside home in Sullivan, Missouri. The operation lasted from October 2019 to May 2021. The FBI calls it a “prolific drug operation” that sold millions of Xanax-branded or misbranded pills.
FBI Special Agent Chris Crocker noted that Adams was one of the most prolific manufacturers and distributors of counterfeit Xanax in the United States. Counterfeit pills pose a serious threat to the health of consumers due to the content of unknown substances. Adams used the same dies as the manufacturer and used a pill press machine to create pills identical to the pharmaceutical product, which was said to be capable of producing 16,200 pills per hour. Using Wickr Me to exchange encrypted messages and getting paid in cryptocurrency, he mailed or dropped off the pills. His fake pills were widely advertised on the darknet.
Last May, law enforcement officers conducted a search and found tens of thousands of counterfeit pills, as well as more than $600,000 in cash and $330,000 in bitcoins. Adams recently pleaded guilty to Internet distribution of a controlled substance, conspiracy to sell counterfeit drugs and actually selling counterfeit drugs.
He will serve two years in prison, after which he will receive three years of parole. Two accomplices were also arrested in the case, including Adams’ girlfriend. The fourth accomplice died of an overdose.
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