Empire cybercrime market owner pleads guilty to drug conspiracy

Published on January 28, 2026

​A Virginia man who co-created Empire Market, one of the largest dark web marketplaces at the time, pleaded guilty to federal drug conspiracy charges for facilitating $430 million in illegal transactions from 2018 to 2020. [...]

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