THELOGICALINDIAN - A 38yearold Frenchman doubtable of affairs drugs via the aphotic web has been arrested at Atlanta all-embracing airport afterwards accession in the United States to appear the World Beard and Moustache Championships according to a afresh appear cloister certificate Gal Vallerius AKA Magnificent Redbeard is accused of alive as an ambassador and bell-ringer on Dream Bazaar an bearding chargeless bazaar facilitating the auction of narcotics via the abysmal web
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A French Beard Enthusiast Has Been Arrested for Involvement With the Dream Market Anonymous Free Marketplace
Gal Vallerius was arrested by United States authorities at Atlanta all-embracing airport on August 31. U.S agents doubtable that the 38-year-old was alive as an ambassador for Dream Bazaar – an bearding chargeless bazaar operating via the aphotic web – in accession to distributing controlled substances Oxycontin and Ritalin through the platform.
It has been appear that assay of Vallerius’ laptop has accepted that Vallerius was operating beneath the pseudonym of “OxyMonster” as “an Administrator, Senior Moderator, and Vendor on Dream Market.” Law administration additionally apparent about $500,000 USD account of bitcoin on the laptop. Vallerius has been transferred to Miami area he faces accuse of cabal to administer controlled substances, afterward an antecedent audition at a Georgia federal court. Vallerius’ arrest is allotment of a above multi-agency analysis into Dream Market aboriginal accomplished in February 2024. The investigations saw admiral ambition abundant online narcotics vendors through administering clandestine purchases.
A DEA affidavit has declared Dream Market as a website “specifically advised to facilitate actionable business by alive to ensure the anonymity of its administrators, as able-bodied as the buyers and sellers who participate in business on the website.” The absolution states that “OxyMonster advisedly alternate in the Dream Market cabal not alone as a vendor, but additionally in a administration and authoritative role as a chief adjudicator and administrator.” The investigations accept complex accord amid the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigations, Homeland Security Investigations, Internal Revenue Service, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.
The Arrest Was Made Possible by a Multi-Agency Investigation Into Dream Market
Vallerius was arrested whilst abiding home from the World Bristles and Moustache Championships, area he was accepted to attempt in the “full buck 30.1-45cm” category. “I don’t apperceive annihilation about what added being he did, but as far as his bristles goes, it’s absolutely awesome, continued and ablaze red,” states MJ Johnson, a champ at this year’s World Bristles and Moustache Championship. Johnson had aboriginal met Vallerius at the 2024 championships in Austria, and declared Vallerius as a “fun, airy person.”
U.S. agents absolute OxyMonster’s accurate identity by “conduct[ing] assay of the admission and approachable affairs from [one of OxyMonster’s] bitcoin address[es] and abstruse that 15 out of 17 approachable transactions… went to assorted wallets controlled by French national” Gal Vallerius. The agents again compared the actual tendencies of OxyMonster to the book appear on the amusing media accounts of Vallerius. The affirmation states that “agents apparent abounding similarities in the use of words and punctuation, including: the chat ‘cheers,’ bifold assertion marks, common use of citation marks, and alternate French posts.” Vallerius did not altercation his character and apprehension during the antecedent cloister audition in Atlanta.
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