Lakewood Man Sold Drugs With Bitcoin Through Darknet: Feds

LAKEWOOD, CO – A Lakewood man accused of selling illegal drugs through the "dark web," receiving pay in Bitcoin appeared in U.S. District Court in Denver yesterday.

Dillon Grobe, 32, faces federal charges of drug dealing and conspiracy for allegedly being partner in an operation that sold illegal drugs and delivered them across the country via the U.S. Mail, court records say.

Grobe and Lakewood roommate Paul Carlos Moseley, 31, allegedly were part of an online illegal drug marketplace which was cracked in 2017 by undercover investigators from the Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Postal Service, an indictment showed.

Between October, 2017 and April, 2018, undercover agents used Bitcoin to order thousands of dollars worth of heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine and LSD. Then, with a warrant, investigators placed GPS trackers on Moseley's BMW and Lexus and used post office surveillance cameras to intercept packages mailed by Grobe and Moseley containing illegal drugs and cash. Moseley's fingerprints were recovered from foil wrappers in one of the packages.

Grobe's darknet account allegedly advertised "for good acid, contact [Grobe]." Just before Grobe's arrest, undercover agents ordered 30 tabs of LSD online from the account in April.

Agents obtained a warrant to search Grobe's Lakewood apartment on April 19, while neither he nor his roommate were home. Agents found a black chest with 9.3 grams of a substance that field-tested positive for LSD, scraps of paper with logins and passwords for darknet and Bitcoin accounts, and behind the couch, an AR-15-style rifle with a loaded magazine, the indictment said.

Grobe was taken into custody and released May 16 on a $10,000 bond.

A three-day jury trial in the courtroom of Judge Raymond Moore is scheduled for Nov. 26.

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