Vishesh Aragam Guruprasad of Boyds was sentenced to 42 months in federal prison for his involvement in a drug distribution conspiracy involving the purchase and sale of drugs through the dark web marketplace and money laundering.
Aragam, 31, laundered the money he made from drugs by converting it into bitcoin and then transferring the money into bank accounts, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Maryland.
He pled guilty to conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute more than two kilograms of Methylenedioxymethamphetamine between July 2016 and February 2019.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Aragam sold more than 1,000 transactions selling MDMA, heroin and marijuana through the dark web marketplace. His customers paid for their drugs using Bitcoin.
He admitted to getting his drugs from the United Kingdom and then selling them in the United States.
Following a search warrant at Aragam’s residence on April 4, 2019, authorities recovered four rifles, a shotgun, more than 1,100 rounds of ammunition, 92.83 grams of MDMA, marijuana and one gram of a mixture containing phenylethyl and fentanyl.
The Drug Enforcement Agency, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and Montgomery County Police Department all contributed to this investigation.
— US Attorney Maryland (@USAO_MD) April 20, 2023
