Customers paid with Bitcoin as man was ‘street dealing’ prescription drugs online

Customers paid for prescription drugs by cryptocurrency Bitcoin after one found the seller on a “dark web” website, a court heard.

Police traced two recent buyers who were mailed by defendant Stephen Henry-Palmer by recorded delivery.

One said he found Henry-Palmer’s e-mail address and name on a forum.

Over the years this man bought, on a number of occasions, 100 Diazepam at a time – a drug which can be used to treat anxiety, muscle spasms and fits.

He paid by Bitcoin, said Jon Fountain, prosecuting at Nottingham Crown Court.

The second person paid with the same currency for 100 Diazepam at a time after he located the defendant on a “dark web website”.

The probe began after police went to the defendant’s home address in Retford and recovered “a considerable quantity of Class C drugs”, explained Mr Fountain.

“Many thousands of drugs he has pleaded guilty to; the past supply of 12,300 Zanex (Alprazolam) and 9,000 tablets of Diazepam”.

Zanex is used to treat anxiety and panic…