"In a Manhattan courtroom earlier this month, Arkansas doctor David Churchill described the day he found the body of his 27-year-old son, Reed, after a fatal dose of fentanyl: half on the couch, half on the floor, "cold and dead and stiff," as Churchill told the court. "As you might imagine, it was the worst day of my life," the father said, standing beside his wife and suppressing tears. "We've been gutted by this, and we have to live with it every day.""
"During the hearing, the 25-year-old Taiwanese man would be sentenced to 30 years in prison, one of the longest sentences ever handed down in the US for the sale of drugs on the dark web. The fentanyl-laced pills marketed as oxycodone that killed Churchill's son, a star tennis player dealing with pain from an injury, were among the thousands of pounds of illegal drugs, including MDMA, meth, cocaine, and opioids, whose sale Incognito facilitated in its nearly four years online."
An FBI informant secretly staffed and helped run the Incognito dark web market for almost two years while allegedly approving sales of fentanyl-tainted pills, including pills linked to a confirmed fatality. Incognito facilitated sales exceeding $100 million and moved thousands of pounds of MDMA, methamphetamine, cocaine, and opioids during nearly four years of operation. A 25-year-old administrator, Lin Rui-Siang, received a 30-year prison sentence for his role in the marketplace. A 27-year-old buyer, Reed Churchill, died after ingesting fentanyl-laced pills marketed as oxycodone. Family members described the emotional impact of the fatal overdose.
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