Inmates were selling fentanyl on the web

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Even inmates at the penitentiary in Drummondville, the two alleged traffickers allegedly sold fentanyl on the web.

Éric Thibault

Tuesday, 17 October 2017 23:20

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One of the first Québécois condemned to have produced fentanyl in a clandestine manner, is now accused of having sold out to the United States from his cell at the penitentiary in Drummondville and have caused death.

Jason Joey Berry, a Montreal 34-year-old, is part of a group of 10 people – five Canadians, two Chinese, and three Americans – who come to be charged with conspiracy and trafficking of fentanyl in the United States in the same survey, announced the u.s. Department of justice on Tuesday.

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Jason Berry
Accused

Berry and four Quebecers of asian origin are at risk of heavy penalties, as this dangerous opioid – 50 times more powerful than heroin – that they would have sent in a dozen american States would have led to fatal overdoses in four people, according to court documents viewed by The Journal.

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Daniel Vivas Ceron
Accused

Berry had been arrested by the police officers of the SPVM, in April 2013, when the first seizure of a lab of fentanyl in the metropolis, Pointe-Saint-Charles. He had been sentenced to five years in penitentiary the following year.

Cell and the ” Dark Web “

But his incarceration would not have stopped its activities so far, according to the investigation u.s. authorities conducted with the assistance of the royal Canadian mounted police.

Berry, and a Quebec adoption, the Colombian Daniel Vivas Ceron, have ” organized and directed the canadian transactions of this criminal organization while they were inmates at a medium security penitentiary in Drummondville in Quebec “, one can read in the indictment is filed before the courts of the state of North Dakota by the federal prosecutor Christopher Myers.

The two alleged traffickers are using a smart phone, although the possession of such a device is prohibited in prison, according to the survey.

The transactions were mainly woven in the anonymity of the “dark web,” a parallel network to the internet where buyers and sellers were using nicknames and believed that their communications would be immune from the police.

Berry is borrowed then the identity of a DJ well-known while Vivas Ceron – jailed for import of cocaine and attempted murder – was called ” Joe Bleau “.

Four Quebecers of asian origin – Xuan Cahn Nguyen, 38 years old, Vannek Um, 39 years, Mary Um, 37 years old, and Lida Van, 25 years – are also accused of having participated in this conspiracy.

Mixed with other hard drugs, fentanyl has been over 900 deaths in British Columbia in 2016.