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There have been a lot of reports lately about online pharmacies selling counterfeit drugs. If you are as alarmed about that act as much as most people, you might take comfort in the knowledge that the government is actually taking action against such insult to unsuspecting buyers.In a release dated January 21, 2011, the Department of Justice stated that recently a Costa Rica man (extradited to Kansas City, Kansas) was charged with (and plead guilty to) operating an Internet pharmacy that sold 1.4 million worth of “misbranded and counterfeit drugs as well as controlled substances.”Manuel Calvelo, 37, was arrested in Puerto Rico and extradited to Kansas where he pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and one count of conspiracy to commit drug trafficking.In his plea he admitted that between the years 2005 and 2008 he and another man operated more than one web site offering drugs without a prescription (that were in fact misbranded or counterfeit) to customers in the United States in direct violation of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.Some of the brand names offered on Calvelo’s site included Viagra, Depakote, Glucophage, Zoloft, Lipitor, Cialis, Xanax, Ativan and Klonopin; as well as controlled substances including Alprazolam (sold under the brand name Xanax), Lorazapam (Ativan) and Clonazepam (Klonopin).The Department of Justice reported that in 2007 an undercover agent from the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Criminal Investigations made purchases from Continue Reading »

mgeedey :: Jan.26.2011 :: Cybercrime :: Comments Off

The U.S. Department of Justice’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section makes the statement loud and clear: internet crime will be punished. Take a look at three press releases on the department’s website for confirmation that if you do the crime you will do the crime even in regard to cybercrime:30-month Prison Term: Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, announced that Mitchell L. Frost, age 23, of Bellevue, Ohio, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Lesley Wells to 30 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release. Frost was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of 40,000 to Bill O’Reilly.com and 10,000 to the University of Akron, and a special assessment of 200 to the Crime Victims’ Fund. Frost previously appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Nancy A. Vecchiarelli on May 26, 2010, at which time he pleaded guilty to a two-count Information, filed on May 14, 2010, which charged Frost with causing damage to a Continue Reading »

www.privatenavigator.com :: Dec.23.2010 :: Cybercrime :: Comments Off