14 DAY TRIAL // Two men from Waverly, Iowa, were sentenced to more than 11 years in a federal prison in total after being caught selling carfentanil and cyclopropyl fentanyl pills on the dark web as prescription oxycodone pills.
Evan Paul Sage and Cameron James Lensmeyer, both age 20, pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute carfentanil and marijuana, with Sage also pleading guilty to an extra count of "possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime."
The law enforcement team that searched their Cedar Falls residence during June 2017 were able to seize "over 800 blue pills that appeared to be prescription oxycodone pills, over $20,000 in cash, over 30 grams of cocaine, over 600 grams of marijuana, and a loaded .32 caliber handgun."
According to the Tri-County Drug Enforcement Task Force who investigated their cases, during further testing on a later date, the investigators found out that most of the oxycodone pills contained carfentanil a narcotic known to be 10,000 times more potent than morphine, as well as around 100 times stronger than fentanyl.
Also, some of the pills contained yet another synthetic fentanyl compound called cyclopropyl fentanyl, an opioid analgesic fentanyl analog sold as a designer drug on most illicit drug markets.
Both men also received supervised release orders besides the time imprisonment time
"In a plea agreement, Lensmeyer admitted that he and Sage purchased hundreds of purported prescription pills, including purported oxycodone and alprazolam pills, through a “dark web” marketplace," says the Department of Justice press release.
Sage and Lensmeyer have been sentenced by United States District Court Judge Linda R. Reade in a Cedar Rapids court.
Lensmeyer received 52 months of imprisonment in a federal prison with an extra three-year term of supervised release after the prison term ends.
Sage was sentenced to 85 months behind bars, and he also must serve a five-year term of supervised release once the jail term expires.
The two Waverly men are not the only dark web dealers caught red-handed by law enforcement seeing that Gal Vallerius aka Oxymonster, former Dream Market admin was sentenced to 20 years in jail, and Gary Davis aka Libertas, a Silk Road admin, also faces 20 years after a guilty plea for a count of narcotics distribution.