A nurse accused of illegally selling opiate tablets and fentanyl patches using Bitcoin on a dark canvas

A nurse suspected of earning hundreds of thousands of dollars by illegally selling 20,000 opiate pills on a dark canvas was arrested.

Carrie Alaine Markis, who lives in California, was arrested after her online pharmacy was found to be trading Bitcoin for lethal drugs, such as fentanyl.

The 46-year-old has earned tens of thousands of dollars selling drugs through a market on the invisible network called Farmacy41.

Markis, of Rancho Cordova, was arrested last week and could face charges of distribution and conspiracy.

Markis alleged during online discussions with clients that she had received prescription drugs from people who had bought them from patients who had bought them from a doctor.

A California nurse, Carris Alaine Markis, suspected of illegally selling thousands of opioid tablets on the black network, was arrested

Court documents show that Markis began selling thousands of fentanyl patches, hydrocone, oxycodone, and morphine pills and other drugs in 2013.

In private messages to customers, Markis would have left an incriminating trace, explaining that his main business was selling Nutrivite vitamins, according to the Sacramento Bee.

The illicit pharmacy made 393 sales in the Pandora market, collecting 206 bitcoins, or about 122,000 US dollars at the time of the transactions, indicated judicial files.

Farmacy41 also operated on the AlphaBay market from November 2015 to April 2016, selling nearly 3,000 pills and 64 fentanyl patches worth approximately $ 74,235, according to court documents.

The pharmacy also traded on the now-extinct market of Silk Road, where it sold nearly 13,000 pills and other drugs worth over $ 232,000 out of about 700 sales, according to documents. of justice.

A large portion of the transactions generated from the Silk Road account, which was last active in May 2014, were paid in Bitcoin.

The drugs sold included 8,723 hydrocodone tablets, 2,690 oxycodone, 839 methadone, 70 morphine tablets and 16 fentanyl patches.

The affidavit states: "The opinions of Farmacy41 users are extremely positive. The majority of user ratings are five out of five.

The court documents indicate that Markis holds a Master's degree in Nursing and Leadership in the field of Health Care from the University of California at Davis.

She is registered in California as a registered nurse licensed in 1996, but she has been clbadified as "inactive" and has never been sanctioned.

The US Attorney's Office in Sacramento has spearheaded nationwide efforts to crack down on hidden websites that are supposed to offer impossible sales of drugs.

His arrest is the result of a large-scale investigation by the US Attorney's Office into dark websites offering drugs and illegal guns in transactions that can not be traced.