Criminal Law
A Dark Web Drug Dealer Faces Prison After a Deadly Narcotics Overdose
A 32-year-old Middletown man was sentenced on Friday to 15 years in federal prison for importing and trafficking fentanyl analogues and synthetic opioids through the dark web.
Through his guilty plea, Chukwuemeka Okparaeke, also known as “Emeka,” admitted to importing drugs from Hong Kong and making false statements to the government regarding the proceeds of his offenses.
He admitted that in November 2016, he sold a synthetic narcotic to an 18-year-old individual who died from an overdose after using the drug, He also admitted that his narcotics offenses involved over 16 kilograms of drugs.
It was alleged that he imported kilogram quantities of fentanyl analogues from Hong Kong and China into the United States.
