BREAKING News Out Of Colorado. MASSIVE BUST! LOOK WHO WAS ARRESTED!!!

BREAKING News Out Of Colorado. MASSIVE BUST! LOOK WHO WAS ARRESTED!!! A member of a Darknet drug trafficking organization
was sentenced Wednesday to 36 months imprisonment for importing controlled substances. U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer, District of Colorado,
announced this sentence.

This case was investigated by the Denver Illicit
Digital Economy Working Group, comprised of the following agencies: U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the U.S. Postal Inspection
Service, and the Internal Revenue Services Criminal Investigation, in partnership with
the Romanian Central Anti-Narcotics Unit in Bucharest, Romania, and the Belgian Federal
Judicial Police, East Flanders Drug Unit in Dendermonde, Belgium. Other U.S.

And international agencies assisting
the working group in this investigation included: the Boulder County (Colorado) Drug Task Force,
the Arapahoe County (Colorado) Sheriffs Office, the Boulder County District Attorneys
Office, U.S. Customs and Border Protection offices nationwide, the Department of Justices
Office of International Affairs, Europol, and Eurojust. Leonardo Cristea, 22, had previously pled
guilty to one count of conspiracy to importing controlled substances into the United States. On May 3, 2016, in a joint U.S./European enforcement
action, law enforcement dismantled the ItalianMafiaBrussels Drug Trafficking Organization, arresting 10
defendants during early morning raids in Bruges, Belgium and surrounding areas.

Cristea and Filip Lucian Simion were arrested
simultaneously in Bucharest, Romania, and extradited to the District of Colorado in
July and October 2016, respectively. The nine-count indictment underlying the extraditions
charged Simion, Leonardo Cristea, and others with conspiracies to distribute and import
into the United States controlled substances. The defendants were also charged with substantive
counts of importing controlled substances, and aiding and abetting. In addition, Simion was charged in several
counts of distribution of controlled substances by means of the internet and conspiracy to
launder money.

The leader of the organization, Simion, pleaded
guilty on April 9, 2018, to one count of conspiracy to import into the United States controlled
substances, and one count of conspiracy to launder money. Both charges carry a maximum possible penalty
of 20 years imprisonment. Simion will be sentenced in Denver on Aug.
30. According to court documents, from January
2013, through May 3, 2016, members of the conspiracy imported kilogram quantities of
MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, a Schedule I controlled substance commonly known
as Ecstasy) into the United States via the mail from various countries in Europe.

The transnational organization operated online
as the Darknet vendor ItalianMafiaBrussels or IMB, and operated on black markets,
such as the now defunct Silk Road and Silk Road 2.0, To sell the MDMA throughout the
United States and other countries. The organization accepted payment for the
drugs in bitcoin. This case is being prosecuted by Assistant
U.S. Attorney Michele R.

Korver, District of Colorado..