Fentanyl online trader extradited to the United States

[Dolores]

Authorities extradited Francisco Alberto López Reyes, known as “Francisco Fentanilo,” or Frank to the United States on 30 October 2024. He is accused of operating an online network for the sale and distribution of fentanyl and methamphetamine from the Dominican Republic, local media reported.

López Reyes was arrested on 29 September 2024 during a coordinated operation involving the Public Ministry, the National Drug Control Agency (DNCD), US Marshals, and strategic support from the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). He is considered one of the key targets in the fight against fentanyl trafficking in the hemisphere.

Facing seven criminal charges, López Reyes is accused of participating in a criminal organization, conspiracy to traffic-controlled substances, and the commercialization of fentanyl. His alleged activities are linked to the deaths of nine...

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[CristoRey]

Good riddance.
Lets hope these dirtbags don't start peddling this poison into the Dominican Republic.

 

[Joseph NY2STI]

Wouldn't he do harder time in D.R. - and at a much lower cost to me - than in the U.S.? The drug charge will get him time; the pedo charge will (hopefully) get him a funeral.

 

[CristoRey]

He' not gonna going to get NYC's no bail revolving door treatment. www.curecog.com

 

[windeguy]

Good riddance.
Lets hope these dirtbags don't start peddling this poison into the Dominican Republic.

That is what one calls inevitable, no?

Just like when the DR was only a major transhipment site , but then people began to get paid in product for resale in the local market to creat the demand here as well.

 

[Glenn Burke]

That is what one calls inevitable, no?

Just like when the DR was only a major transhipment site , but then people began to get paid in product for resale in the local market to creat the demand here as well.

If he was selling it for the local market, there wouldn't be any extradition. The article says "He is accused of operating an online network for the sale and distribution of fentanyl and methamphetamine from the Dominican Republic". It looks like he was operating his website (or whatever it was) from DR, but it's obvious that he was selling to US, that's why they wanted him.

 

[Glenn Burke]

Good riddance.
Lets hope these dirtbags don't start peddling this poison into the Dominican Republic.

 

[windeguy]

If he was selling it for the local market, there wouldn't be any extradition. The article says "He is accused of operating an online network for the sale and distribution of fentanyl and methamphetamine from the Dominican Republic". It looks like he was operating his website (or whatever it was) from DR, but it's obvious that he was selling to US, that's why they wanted him.

I understand. It is probably just a matter of time before someone fills the gap and starts selling in the DR market.

And how would they even know if he did not have both a local and on-line out of country business?

 

[Glenn Burke]

What I find really interesting in this article is not the drugs themselves. Probably the guy did not break any Dominican laws, he was just operating some illegal business in another country while living in DR and doing it online.

It just amazes me how some people believe that if they do something illegal online, they won't be caught in DR. It's not the first time when somebody gets extradited for illegal websites, online scams and whatever else. And still there are people who think that if they don't break Dominican laws and if they use VPN (or even don't bother to use it), they won't be caught in DR by US authorities sooner or later.

 

[Glenn Burke]

I understand. It is probably just a matter of time before someone fills the gap and starts selling in the DR market.

I don't think that poor Dominicans have money for fentanyl, and I don't think that rich Dominicans would use fentanyl instead of cocaine

Who would buy it here, people with chronic pain? They can get it prescribed legally.

 

[windeguy]

I don't think that poor Dominicans have money for fentanyl, and I don't think that rich Dominicans would use fentanyl instead of cocaine

Who would buy it here, people with chronic pain? They can get it prescribed legally.

Well, that is simply not true because Fentanyl is very cheap to make.

And a little goes a very long way because it is amazingly potent.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/drugs-fentanyl-supplychain/

We bought everything needed to make $3 million worth of fentanyl.​

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All it took was $3,600 and a web browser​

A cardboard box half the size of a loaf of bread bore a shipping label declaring its contents: “Adapter.” It was delivered in October to a Reuters reporter in Mexico City.

There was no adapter inside that package. Instead, sealed in a metallic Mylar bag was a plastic jar containing a kilogram of 1-boc-4-piperidone, a pale powder that’s a core ingredient of fentanyl. It was enough to produce 750,000 tablets of the deadly drug.

And remember, it was Dominicans that invented crack cocaine.... So don't underestimate their ingenuity.

 

[slowmo]

Strange to think that fentanyl is available in most countries but not in the DR. Sounds like wishful thinking.

 

[windeguy]

I don't think that poor Dominicans have money for fentanyl, and I don't think that rich Dominicans would use fentanyl instead of cocaine

Who would buy it here, people with chronic pain? They can get it prescribed legally.

Who would use fentanyl? The same type of people that are using it elsewhere:

How the fentanyl crisis' fourth wave has hit every corner of the US

The epidemic's staggering scale and infiltration of communities is laid bare in a new study.

www.bbc.com

 

[windeguy]

Pain killers are very hard to get in the DR according to people posting about needing them. So illicit fentanyl could cover that market easily.

The problem with fentanyl is keeping the dosage low enough to not kill the user.

 

[melphis]

Pain killers are very hard to get in the DR according to people posting about needing them. So illicit fentanyl could cover that market easily.

The problem with fentanyl is keeping the dosage low enough to not kill the user.

I could never understand the drug dealers business model in countries like the US and Canada. Killing your clients at a level only met by covid and cancer is just plain stupid. It just seems to me that selling smaller doses to the idiots that ingest this crap is not only more profitable but you get to sell them many times over.

 

[CristoRey]

I don't think that poor Dominicans have money for fentanyl, and I don't think that rich Dominicans would use fentanyl instead of cocaine

Who would buy it here, people with chronic pain? They can get it prescribed legally.

You don't understand the micro-trafficking drugs trade in the DR.

 

[keepcoming]

I don't think that poor Dominicans have money for fentanyl, and I don't think that rich Dominicans would use fentanyl instead of cocaine

Who would buy it here, people with chronic pain? They can get it prescribed legally.

Lots of rich people dying from fentanyl. Just have to look at the news to see that. Problem is in the DR you do not really see that information publicized very often. My SIL is a physician, and she has said numerous times how much it is being used.

 

[Glenn Burke]

You don't understand the micro-trafficking drugs trade in the DR.

That's correct. I have no fcking idea how Dominicans trade drugs here, because I don't use drugs.

But what I understand is that cocaine, marijuana and ecstasy are party drugs and Dominicans like to party. Now tell me, what kind of party will you have using that fentanyl drug? A coma party? I don't see any potential users of that drug in DR, except for a few people who maybe need it for medical reasons like chronic pain, and can't have it prescribed legally for some reasons.

Once again, pay attention to the article, the guy did not distribute it here locally at all. And probably one of the reasons for that is that there's no demand for it.

 

[Glenn Burke]

Lots of rich people dying from fentanyl. Just have to look at the news to see that.

I read the local news every day. How many people exactly died of fentanyl in DR during 2024, for example? I have never heard of anyone. But if there were some, probably it's 1% of number of those who died after consuming clerén.

Honestly, I don't care about drugs at all, not my problem. If it was up to me, I'd say legalize them all, sell them legally and tax them. Who dies because of them, it's their problem.

What I found interesting in this article is his model of operation. Still unclear if he imported it from India to DR or they shipped it directly to his customers in US, and he just operated the websites. What I can say for sure is that if his nickname was "Francisco Fentanilo", probably he talked to much, as all Dominicans.

 

[Notengo]

The problem with fentanyl is that it is cheap and mixed in other (cut) drugs to maximize the profit. It’s also 100x stronger than heroine and hard to dose. Those who died from an overdose might not even have known there was fentanyl in their drugs.