A jury in Seattle convicted a trio of drug traffickers on Aug. 4 on charges stemming from their involvement in a drug ring that sold pills made to look like Oxycodone that contained deadly fentanyl imported from China.
According to testimony at trial, Bradley Woolard, the leader of the drug ring, began to buy fentanyl and a fentanyl derivative from China in 2015 and 2016, after learning how to do so on the dark web. Woolard, 42, purchased a pill press and mixing materials and taught himself how to make pills. Woolard’s equipment was capable of producing 2.5 million pills.
