Hello and welcome to Darknet Demystified.
My name is Sam Bent.
I'm a former Darknet vendor market admin and now I'm
a content creator author, hacker and paralegal.
On this show, I delve into topics related to the Darknet.
So if you're interested in evaluating your security, for example,
by looking at cases in which the individuals went against
the federal governments of the world, then you're in the right place.
By looking at Darknet vendors and how they ran their business
along with their mistakes, we can see how to operate
inside of a highly hostile environment with adversaries who have black
or unlimited budgets to catch arrest or disrupt
you in terms of operational security and informational security,
which kind of makes any other adversary a joke.
Today's episode concerns a Darknet vendor
who has not been sentenced, which is new for this podcast,
is about to be, though, on May 30th of 2023.
Unlike most vendors, this man
faces the possibility of a life sentence.
His name is Henry Koffie.
He's 37 years old and he's from Darby, Pennsylvania.
He was found guilty on two counts of distribution of a controlled substance,
resulting in death
one count of distribution of a controlled substance, resulting in serious bodily
injury, and five counts of distribution of a controlled substance.
In this case, the mistake
that this vendor made was preventable, and
a lot of them were just foolish.
And there were a lot of them.
An affidavit supporting the criminal complaint
that was filed in Pennsylvania by Special Agent Eric Yingling
can make this up.
Life is definitely stranger than fiction.
Sometimes.
Agent Yingling works for the FBI and is currently assigned to the complex
financial crimes and Health care squad, which includes
an opioid task force in the Pittsburgh division of the FBI.
In his affidavit, he states that he's been there
since December of 2014,
and he also states that
he thinks that Koffie spelt K-o-f-f-i-e
is a vendor on Alphabay
who goes by the name of Narcoboss.
He talks about how this vendor on Alphabay has on his product page products
such as China wide synthetic heroin, fentanyl mix,
and that's quite a total at the price of $40 gram.
He said that when he had viewed the profile in June of 2017,
the profile had indicated that they had conducted
well over
six and a half thousand transactions.
These transaction amounts would be something that would come back to bite him
in the ass later on, although they detail a number of undercover buys.
I swear these guys get off on this really weird terminology.
At the end of the day, like every person in the darknet is anonymous.
So like, when they meet these purchases, they are too.
I love how they still like to say that, you know, they're undercover.
They're like, if you're, you know, anonymous, you don't need to cover.
All you need is a, you know, your screen name.
It's just it's funny that, like, you know, they they perpetuate this thing.
And so it's like,
you know, some elitist kind of thing like, oh, we were we made it undercover.
Like, everyone's undercover anyways.
The opening up of one of the purchases of the packages that they made from
Koffie, basically they open up this mail parcel and inside this mail parcel
there's an envelope in like a white legal envelope, regular kind of envelope.
You'd stick your your mail in.
And inside of there was a like a zipper bag,
like a Ziploc bag which had ten grams of white powder in it. And
if they're actually telling the truth about this, in my opinion,
that right there in and of itself is a massive, massive fail.
So, you know, first off, there should have been like at least three
different layers, like distinct, separate layers of heat
sealed Mylar bags or vacuum bags, as some people like to call them.
I know that when I shipped, I would use anywhere from 2 to 3 layers.
On top of that, I would use what's called a visual decoy, which is just like a bag
that is a vacuum seal or heat sealed bag, but you can't see through it.
And I would, you know, slap this label on.
It's said organic dried fruit.
So someone grabbed it, didn't feel weird, didn't look weird
and seemed kind of normal.
But to have like absolutely no vacuum sealing whatsoever
is definitely a wicked bad hit, in my opinion.
And like the
funny part of the affidavit to me anyways, I'm just misreading.
There was a section where it said that you're inside the plastic bag.
They found ten grams of white powder.
So I read that I'm like, oh, ten grams, you know, And I kept reading.
And then I got further into the affidavit and they said that, you know,
they had sent the the, you know, the suspicious white powder
to the United States Postal Inspectors service forensic laboratory
for chemical analysis and that it was 11 grams of fentanyl.
I'm like, wait a minute, didn't you guys just weigh it and said it was
ten grams?
Like, do did it did it grow?
The cook.
I didn't know what I was missing.
So this is interesting.
In the affidavit, you know how they got that wrong.
You know, unless I'm wrong.
And in addition to this, they said that due
to the number of undercover purchases which is going to just now with
now that they saw, it's going to drive me nuts every time I go through
and I read another one of these affidavits is they said that, you know,
because of the amount of purchases that, you
know, Koffie basically had
and, you know, the fact
that he hadn't really driven anywhere
to do them, that they could tell that he was shipping
them from in and around the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area,
which I mean, this is definitely a red flag, like
not necessarily like where he was shipping from,
but the fact that he was constantly shipping from the same place
as like like like it's a major, major issue.
If you're shipping packages every day, like, that's cool.
You're you know, that's what it is.
That's the job is but
you need to be not shipping from the same places
like if you have to weigh in ship once every three days
or, you know, once every two days because you know, you
you need to add some driving time then like that's what you need to do.
You know, rent a rent an apartment like
an apartment building, rent a a hotel, whatever.
Like that's what you need to do in order to do that, in order to ensure that
you have the distance between yourself and where it's getting shipped from.
And you shouldn't be coming
back to that post office for a few months.
When the Feds reviewed Koffie's Coinbase account,
it showed that it had transacted a total of
like 341 Bitcoin
and all the transactions were relayed out.
Obviously all that information they had.
And again, more than willing to hand over to the feds.
Like, it's just it's absolutely insane.
The the fact that
there's so little forethought into OPSEC,
the people more than willingly hand
over all this info to them.
So information security, basically making sure that
specific pieces of information that you have
are secure, which is pretty self-explanatory.
Now that I said it, operational security has more to do with preventing
any competition adversaries
that you may have from being able to gather any information
and operating in a way using Coinbase,
using accounts that were in his name, providing his real name,
providing his real phone number, all allowed law enforcement to easily show
that he was involved in this activity.
And it was it was all that time of the day.
They could look in.
They could see
like look at how many transactions have happened, in which money he's gotten.
And even if they didn't know how many transactions he had had,
they could base it off of that because all of those financial records are saved.
So had he used something that was non-KYC, It would have been a lot more difficult
for them to pin all that kind of stuff on him and make those connections.
Obviously, him also finding a different supplier would
have definitely helped.
If one was to argue the point of karma,
I think that they would point out the drugs that that he sold.
There are literal task forces that are dedicated
just to individuals like this who sell opioids.
So selling opioids
put a massive target on your back is darknet vendor.
And what's interesting is
the more task forces that they create, the government,
I mean, that they assign to these kind of specific drugs and all that stuff.
And the more these particular drug traffickers
are hunted, the more lucrative the drug becomes.
In other words, the more the US government tries to ban
and prosecute people for using the drug, the more the drug gets used.
And this kind of backwards logic
is something that is common with the United States government,
and it's prohibition on various drugs and stance on drugs.
And I'm absolutely a fan of the United States doing
kind of the same thing that the state of Oregon has done in legalizing all drugs.
And I digress, back to the main event.
So death or rather close to it,
the side effect of selling hard drugs like fentanyl is that people
sometimes die from them and sometimes they overdose from them and they live.
But one thing that some people fail to understand is that on occasion
HSI will pick up
some of these nonfederal overdoses or fatal overdoses when they happen.
A big part of this has to do with
who they happen to, and where they happen.
Like, you're not you know, you're very not going to see the Department
of Homeland Security come in and do a massive investigation when
but crackhead ODS in the projects
because they were doing family they just don't care.
Now that said
occasionally they do care for example is like one
such near nonfatal overdose
took place in Portland, Oregon, in May of 2016,
and it happened at the Portland State University.
And law enforcement there had like recovered a USPS parcel
that was shipped by Darknet market kingpin in Portland
and that overdose they cared about because it's in an affluent place
but I'm not laughing it isn't funny it's just like it sure is asinine.
But before I continue on
with this, like the one of the golden rules, right?
is to never handwrite anything if you're a darknet vendor,
along with putting like your prints everywhere
and reading something is equivalent to like leaving a saliva or a fingerprint.
It's something that can be identified and attributed to you.
It's literally like you
signing the box, like your signature.
It's extremely stupid to do.
Furthermore, you shouldn't use like your household inkjet printer
because many printers have what's called micro printing,
though Google it and some of the time your IP addresses
printed inside of that really in really, really small letters, you can't see it.
Instead, you want to be
buy a thermal printer which uses no ink and doesn't do micro printing.
So in 2016,
Koffie violated this golden rule and it gets so much worse.
It gets so much worse.
Like, so he sent a package using a handwritten return address.
And this alone is a massive, massive information security violation
and a stupid operational security screw up.
Just there's complete laziness.
And like in this case, you know, controlling your information,
like you're not denying information to your enemies,
which is literally the definition of operational security. Do.
And you're granting them the ability to collect valuable information about you.
And you knew
writing is just another link that they can use
for the chain that they're going to use to shackle you to a conviction.
So this is
a review of the handwritten shipping label, identified
a return address of 210 Walnut Street,
Floor 2, Darby, Pennsylvania.
Who cares? Right.
What do we know about this address anyways?
Well, we know that Koffie at the time
was receiving half kilos of fentanyl at 216
Walnut Street, second floor, Darby, Pennsylvania,
and is and elected to ship with a return address of 210
Walnut Street, second floor, Darby, Pennsylvania.
I mean, I really have to ask why not just write dude, why not write 216
Walnut Street, you just give them your real address like
like, I mean, why, why raid to tend.
I mean, when I read 316
you make the number six addresses away but the same floor and like
when I read this, it just really blew me away.
The FBI agent who made the affidavit said in it that he believes that
the slight change from 200 to 216
in the return address is done in an effort to for Koffie
to avoid and conceal his illegal activities, which
absolutely brilliant deduction.
I didn't think it was.
I thought he just entered the wrong address.
I mean, and you could tell that at the end of the day,
we're dealing with an individual who obviously has an IQ north of 140.
And I'm actually being sarcastic about both the Darknet vendor aggression,
as well as the FBI agent who wrote the affidavit.
Even though the FBI agent is not a handwriting expert,
which he even says in his own affidavit
he didn't have a problem commenting
on the fact that the handwriting on Koffie's passport
to that of the package, that it appeared to have a striking resemblance.
And that was the last thing
that the FBI agent said in his affidavit.
Now, all of that said, I have to say that I was really impressed with Koffie's
legal work that he submitted for himself, for Guy who now
presumably didn't know what he should send
and didn't know that he shouldn't write a handwritten return address
and it didn't really have any kind of basic operational security
or plan or, you know, didn't think about logistics at all.
Like he definitely seems to have picked up on being able to write a pretty clean
motion, pretty coherent.
Anyways, this was listed as document 13, and in this case, number
two and 7000204 CCB
If anyone cares and wants to look it up, but
like I'm not going through that in any detail because it basically just
it's a, it's a motion with him contesting some of the evidence
that they had pointed out and trying to point out
that the feds, they screwed up and in a couple of different ways.
But it's mostly like in terms of like jurisdiction and stuff like that.
And the main goal of this podcast is to evaluate law enforcement
to see how specific Darknet vendors ended up getting caught.
And we do this to explore the world of operational security,
information security.
Like you said before, it's a comparison that we can use to measure
our own security, if we like, as private citizens and law abiding citizens.
I personally feel that this evaluation is one of the best we can have because
like you said at the beginning of this podcast,
the end of the day, the people who are after Darknet vendors
in many cases have those unlimited budgets that I mentioned, and
they have not just one or two federal governments behind them,
but they also have national and international task forces
that are literally dedicated to hunting these people.
And as I mentioned earlier, there are even specific task forces for specific drugs.
So like when you're trying to evaluate your own security and it's like
this guy might send me malware, I mean, like it's kind of a joke in comparison.
So I think it's a really good comparison to make the level of
security that they're at
Now. What we've covered so far
is like strictly his criminal case in Pennsylvania.
Okay.
He has a whole other case in Oregon
and yet another law enforcement officer.
His testimony
we hear about like even more serious,
horrible OPSEC moves and fatal cases.
So I would argue that that case is more severe.
In this case, it's from a special agent with Homeland
Security investigations named Guy Geno.
Agent Geno has been working for nearby Homeland Security since 2003, and he's
currently working with the high intensity drug trafficking area, a.k.a.
HIDTA Interdiction Task Force.
We're hit locator.
The Portland Police Bureau has drug and device division in Portland,
Oregon, on
May six, 2017.
1006.
At night, Portland police were dispatched to three 3 to 5
Southeastern 29th AV in Portland, Oregon.
An individual identified only by the name C.W.
and died from an overdose.
Officer Pagan and Officer Watts was Sergeant Bates
responded to investigate the overdose.
Watson Bates Both collected evidence while.
Officer Pagan
Again, Pagan whatever.
I don't know how to pronounce his name.
Interviewed C.W.’s roommate.
His roommate was Trevor Nichols.
Sosa, who wasted absolutely no time
in searching out his dead friend, saying that C.W.
had been using fentanyl since approximately the New year.
Sosa also told
Officer Pagan that C.W.
liked to mix alcohol, Xanax and fentanyl,
he also told Officer Pagan that C.W.
was getting the fentanyl and Xanax
from the dark site; Alphabay.
And he also told the officer that he had C.W.
had torn off the tag on his mattress, which was a federal crime.
No, I'm kidding. I'm like, come on, man.
I mean, your buddy just died and like, your first moves are going to be the
tell the cops everything about how f**ked up
this guy is when his body's in the next room?
It's just I hate rats.
Anyways, so we this is just like, are you kidding me?
It's so much crazier, though.
Like, it's absolutely.
Is it the next person to get interrogated was Sean Bloodworth.
Bloodworth quickly told Officer Pagan that he and C.W.
both were ordering fentanyl over Alphabay.
from a vendor.
We use the name Narcoboss, effectively snitching on himself and his dead friend.
But he didn't stop there.
He went on to detail to these two uniformed cops.
But it's only these are Fed showing up his uniform cops.
The Narcoboss advertises the fentanyl as pure China.
White
I mean, he actually advertises his mixed, as we quoted earlier,
but which it was a matter of you already telling on people, why not lied to?
Bloodworth told the cops that he and CW
would split the cost of a gram,
but that CW had started
to order other drugs using his name.
He said that CW like to mix the drugs with alcohol.
When they asked Bloodworth which drugs CW had overdosed on,
he informed them Fentanyl.
He also said that CW had ordered a gram
of fentanyl from Narcoboss for $40 that arrived on May
4th, 2017, at 1:06 p.m..
No, I'm kidding about the 1 to 6 p.m..
This is this is absolutely nuts.
But they hadn't finished it.
And that CW most likely overdosed on their fentanyl.
And later the Oregon State Medical examiner
informed HSI that CW had died of Fentanyl.
So like,
I guess that kind of invalidates the whole point of Bloodsworth
saying anything or his roommate for that matter, like these dudes
snitching their asses off like, you know, at the end of the day, the man's dead.
Like, why air is dirty laundry out there.
It just.
Just shut up.
Yeah, I mean, I know that.
Oh, you're doing the same thing by having this podcast.
Well, I'm trying.
I'm airing out the snitches, and the state's going to do their own
autopsy anyway.
Like to find the cause of death
by telling yourself, like, I really don't get these people.
Bloodworth went on to detail the amount
of shipping time it took to get the drugs,
as well as the fact of the envelopes were eight and a half by 11.
And he told the uniform officer that typically inside
the large envelope was a plain white letter envelope
that contain the fentanyl and the white powder form.
He said the Narcoboss’s Fentanyl was always sent from a Pennsylvania address.
And he also said that he'd been ordering from him since the beginning of the year.
And at the end of the day, it seems like Bloodworth and CW,
his roommate, were absolutely like super eager
to talk to law enforcement.
Shortly after that, an investigation by HSI in Grand Forks, North Dakota,
by Special Agent Jeremy Grube was underway due to another fatal overdose of Ms..
Wilson's boyfriend, who had overdosed
and was taken to Altru Hospital.
Feds had went to interview Holian after having Wilson,
whose boyfriend had just overdosed, arrested on state charges.
So he shot himself and said that he was responsible for purchasing fentanyl
from Narcoboss, who was a Darknet vendor on Alphabay.
Agents then searched his bedroom,
most likely because the idot gave them consent to do so,
and they discovered narcotics and paraphernalia
and they'd found all this because he had cooperated with them,
Because he cooperated with them.
They let him go. No, I am kidding.
They didn't let him go.
Yeah, okay.
The more I literally snitched on himself and gave the feds permission
to search his house and they found all his stuff
and they they charged and arrested him,
gave him stay drug charges
that he had just answered the door and said that,
you know, he had nothing to say and that he didn't want to talk to them
and that if they were going to arrest him, then they could do that.
Otherwise, he was closing the door and he would be he would be free right now
from doing heroin.
But hope. But my point is he would have his freedom.
Like never talk to the police, never talk to the feds.
If they're talking to you, then that means they don't have enough to arrest you.
They are only talking to you to see if you will give them enough
for them to be able to arrest you.
Remember these people are not your friends.
Anything you say can and will be held against you.
And here's where it gets really funny. Okay. So
they had Holieen or Holien,
who was snitched on by Wilson.
Right now, both of these people were arrested and given state
drug cases, even though they cooperated with authorities.
Holien took it to a whole nother level, though,
he said, Snitched a guy named Jeremy Schwartzberg
claiming that Sortberg gave him some fentanyl
in the early morning of April 26, 2017.
He also said that his friend Sortberg
would want him for a friend, presumably add more fentanyl
and other narcotics agents were overjoyed that the Salem Witch on know
was able to continue and
due to people's continued cooperation and
the more people would be arrested and go to prison instead of
going to rehab or getting help with their addiction.
And they conducted a brief operation
with Holien's consent to set up his friend Sortberg.
Sortberg arrived at the meeting location and was detained by the investigators.
They discovered that he was in possession of narcotics
shocker and narcotics paraphernalia.
When he was interrogated, he admitted to providing Holien
with fentanyl in the early morning hours of April 26, 2017.
He also stated that he received the fentanyl from name redacted.
Yeah, they didn't list it so I’m gonna put it his name.
Every time we talk about this particular individual,
that's how I want to phrase it, of Grand Forks, North Carolina.
Sortenberg Believe that name redacted
and Holien were together
to get to obtain grams of fentanyl from the Darknet vendor.
Now Sortenberg snitching on himself,
he drove agents past name redacted residence
located at 18 2017 Street
South Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Yeah.
For his extensive cooperation, he was later arrested on drug charges.
So now it's time to go and press the residence at name Redacted residence
located at 18 2017 South Street, Grand Forks, North Dakota.
And I love how the feds in this case redacted
the name of the individual, but not the house that he was living.
Like it would probably take 10 minutes
to look up the historical records and see who actually lived there.
Anyways, as soon as the feds arrived, their name redacted is dad
that only invited the feds into his house.
But also condemned his son, saying that his son was strung out
at the moment in his bedroom and escorted the agents to his bedroom
where they discovered name redacted, disoriented and visibly under
the influence of an unknown substance, along with being partially unresponsive
at the time, they contacted EMS
and had him brought to the hospital name redacted.
His parents consented to a search of his room after a while,
the feds had went back to the girlfriend
who had her boyfriend die.
And this was Miss Wilson that we had mentioned initially.
And she again confirmed that Blake Holien provided her with the fentanyl,
which was later used by her boyfriend, and he fortunately died
during the investigation of Darknet Market kingpin
HSI agents were able to retrieve a package in which fentanyl was actually received
by a customer, just like the other package that we discussed.
This package also had a handwritten label.
Unlike the other package, this baggage return address
was 210 Walnut Street.
Now, depending on how good your memory is, you may remember that
this address is Koffie's actual
home address. Yeah,
he used
his real address as a return address for a drug package,
as if it wasn't bad enough that he had a handwritten label.
He basically handed over his own address and doing this.
And another thing that we had mentioned before, that I'd connected him
between both the Darknet market Kingpin account on Alphabay
that was banned in the Narcoboss account was there, there expired.
GnuPG key.
That key was version 2.1. .21.
Their version of the key key
like came out in 2012 and had a ton of updates since then.
According to Alphabay reviews, Darknet market kingpin had been banned
from the site because he was advertising the wrong product.
He had been advertising that he was selling that.
What are you selling was China White Fent.
mixed with heroin when in reality there was no heroin in his product.
So now we've covered a bunch of ways that this know guys screwed up really bad.
And here's another one.
So when he had packaged these packages, he didn't use
gloves, which.
But come on, man.
I mean, this is like like I mean criminals in the nineties knew to wear gloves.
I mean I mean like,
like when I used to do this I used to package my products, you know,
in a frigging clean room that I sterilized on a regular basis.
I used a mixture of bleach and water or alcohol.
And this ensured that any skin cells which are DNA
basically were cleaned out of the room or killed or sanitized, like Koffie
did None of this and in fact was ever too easy to even wear gloves.
And his fingerprints were all over, both inside and out.
The packages that contain fentanyl.
And, you know, the funny thing about this case was that
m switching up vendor names mattered.
Like had he went through the simple effort of also
changing the picture of his vendor name and like generating a new PGP
he may have helped to evade or dilute the connection between the two accounts
like and disconnection between these two accounts,
accounting for additional indictments and prosecutions and
no doubt will
add a consider or will amount of time onto his actual sentence.
Like this connection between these two accounts, namely between the Darknet
market kingpin and Narcoboss was shown obvious that even customers knew about it.
I think in one of his reviews, just agents remarked that
customers had said, despite his name changing
the product was still amazing,
that there were even conversations on the Alphabay forums that also confirmed.
That's like as if that's bad enough.
HSI also looked at his social media and we talked about this earlier.
But in addition to
being able to confirm the times that he said himself on vacation
with him actually taking vacation and then discussing it on social media,
a review of his Facebook page, for example, which was titled The Money
Bags 215, and with which
he used his real name to create the account.
Showed a ton of photos of him holding stacks of money,
and we're not talking about like
one or two accounts here.
We're talking about several.
And the more they looked, the more they found like.
And further investigation revealed that Koffie had used
the alias Countstackula’.
Kinda cute, I guess if you're a 12 year old
and you're coming up with a Twitter handle, your first Twitter handle
in a post that he made on February of 2017, which included
an Instagram photo in the post, it said, No clubbing for me tonight.
Work, work, work, work, work.
Okay. Well, there are nothing really bad about that.
I mean. Right.
So here's the thing.
The Instagram photo that was
linked was of two computers,
one black and one silver MacBook.
Still like, look, here's your closer
examination of the Apple's MacBook
shown on the screen.
The icon of the Onion router and the browser like, actually opened.
I'm like, do literally made a push on multiple social media sites
on the clearnet with his face, stacks of money
and computers with the frigging browser open like just this.
Like many of the other cases,
like the super disappointing operational security man, like,
like in addition to his Twitter accounts, the public facing postings,
the feds were able to find posts that Twitter's
geo location stated that Koffie was in Miami Beach.
This picture was him, like, sitting on a jet ski with the comment countstackula.
You're in Miami.
The next day, he posted
another picture holding 25 stacks of light blue banded U.S.
currency inside what appeared to be a nightclub.
With the picture he posted last night in Miami.
So we did the usual.
Yeah.
So two pictures of himself on the plane
and stated that he was returning because the hood missed him.
He had ensured to make sure that the geo and setting was still turned on.
And so the hood knew that he was coming back very soon and that,
you know, he was at Miami International airport.
This idiocy lasted through multiple different vacations that he took,
including one to Phoenix and it continued to go on vacation status
and on the darkness and then tell everybody on the clear net
on social media sites that he was going on vacation.
And post idiotic pictures like that with idiotic comments.
And in addition to all this evidence, the undercover buys
a a team that we had
we had talked about earlier, and I'm sure you're all well aware of
revealed some more information.
The postage company where he had ordered his shipping labels from
after he had actually started using shipping labels.
Apparently he got tired of in writing them and given no evidence
that company said that he had sent out
as part of a batch order a parcel with 99 other parcels.
And the online postage company said that the account
used to purchase the postage
had the labels sent to the email account.
If this
get this: “gettheyayo8@safe-mail.net”
Now here's my here's my email address.
I-sell-drugs@gmail.com.
Fact I guess Narcoboss@safe-mail.net was
already taken.
Oh, man, online security investigations in Portland
requested additional information on the other postage
labels that were actually purchased from the online postage company
what they got blew them away.
What they ended up finding out was their
there were
actually 5706
labels that were purchased by “gettheyayo8”
between September six, 2016
and June 24th,
So here's the real kicker.
Out of those 5706 labels, they were able to confirm
that these packages had been ones that were sent to the fatal overdose
of CW, the fatal overdose of LM
the parcels that were delivered to the Raholien
only in the parcels that were purchased by the United States Postal
Inspection Service and the FBI,
all the parcels that they got that they suspected of having fentanyl in them,
purchased from Narcoboss by the Portland Police Bureau, USPS
and Oregon and Idaho IDTA
also in addition to that, they were also able to connect
the mail parcels that were addressed and delivered to the Holien.
And Walter's in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
So one last thing, like get the.
Yeah, we had made all these purchases with Bitcoin.
The crazy thing is that
this case,
because everything
was thoroughly documented in terms of him ordering his shipping labels
when he ordered them, how he ordered them, the Department of Homeland Security
special agents, like they were able to come up
with a timeline for his drug sales in addition, because they knew
the exact amount of packages that he actually shipped.
They were also able to estimate the amount of drugs that he sold.
Nine times out of ten.
This is an overexaggerated number.
So you always want to make sure that the feds never have the ability
to actually tell how many packages you shipped or when you started.
This was one of those main reasons why I didn't, like go this route,
and I like to have my cousin actually shipped the packages
in person at the United States Postal office.
And one thing that was really crazy in this case,
which
kind of mimicked my case, was the fact that the United States
really held out on disclosing discovery to the defendant,
like reading throughout his docket sheet and your docket.
She is basically like your list of what happened when in your case,
he had made multiple requests or his lawyer had made multiple requests
multiple times to get the full discovery, get over it.
So the discovery basically is
all the evidence that the government has against you.
They're mandated by law to share this with you in
like the amount of docket entries in this case definitely showed that.
But he fought the good fight throughout the case.
He battled the hell out of the United States attorneys that he'd been assigned.
And in the end, like ended up burning through some, like,
I don't know, five or ten United States attorneys like that.
Just they they switched the case from one to another to another to another.
And on June on July 5th, 2017,
the feds executed a search warrant and arrested
Koffie at
his Darby, Pennsylvania, residence.
They arrested him and explained that they arrested him
because of his federal warrant out of the District of Oregon
and claimed that they gave him his Miranda warning rights.
And like in this report, the feds said that, like,
he waived his right and he agreed to answer the investigators questions
that they had, which always is a great way to screw yourself
and even signed an ICE form titled
70 3-025 and declined the officer's
offer to record the interview.
His public defender tried to argue that Koffie did not fully understand his rights
and therefore would not knowingly, intelligently and voluntarily waived them.
And his lawyer claimed that he was in shock because of the raid
and the arrest and am I opinion this was a definitely
a noble effort on his lawyer's part, but ultimately failed.
At the end of the day.
The jury came back on March 3rd of 2023 and found him guilty of distributing
a controlled substance analog which involved serious bodily injury.
They found him guilty of distributing a controlled substance which ended in death.
Then court 4, you know, is the same as the last count,
which was ended in death.
And they also found him guilty of on counts 5 to 9
for distribution of a controlled substance,
all of which, again, he was found guilty of.
But in addition to this,
he's under a federal indictment in two other jurisdictions,
like a federal grand jury in the eastern district of Pennsylvania, returned
a two count indictment, charging him with distributing controlled substance
and distributing a controlled substance within a thousand feet of a playground.
Both of these cases are pending.
I suspect when he actually gets sentenced, as he's already been found guilty
for this one particular case, that they just sense is going to be crazy.
I don't see him getting anything under ten years.
I think I would be absolutely amazed and shocked if he did.
So what are your thoughts on the case?
Why like, do you think that these sentences they were just for this?
Do you think that he should be looking at a life sentence?
Do you think he should be looking at a death sentence?
Like, what do you think about the OPSEC of the defendants in this case?
Stop by the YouTube channel doing Fed time and let me know in the comments.
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