A Santa Clarita man was sentenced to 96 months (8 years) in federal prison for his role in leading a Los Angeles-based drug trafficking operation that distributed heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine through darknet marketplaces. Jerrell Eugene Anderson, 34, was convicted of conspiring with others to sell controlled substances on platforms like Dream and Wall Street Market between July 2018 and March 2019.
Anderson used aliases such as “Drugpharmacist” and “rickandmortyshop” to advertise and sell illegal drugs. The operation packaged the drugs in stuffed animals, shipping them from stash houses in the San Fernando Valley to post offices across Los Angeles for nationwide distribution.
In one notable incident, Anderson and his co-conspirators distributed heroin that led to the death of a victim in Knoxville, Tennessee, in August 2018. Anderson’s drug trafficking activities were discovered after several investigations into darknet sales. In March 2019, law enforcement uncovered a significant stash of methamphetamine, heroin, and cocaine in an apartment used for distribution.
Anderson’s co-defendants, including Christopher Canion Von Holton, Kenneth Lashawn Hadley, Adan Sepulveda, and Jackie Walter Burns, each pleaded guilty to their involvement in the conspiracy and have been sentenced accordingly
