Seattle – A 40-year-old Seattle man was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Seattle to seven years in prison for selling thousands of doses of fentanyl on various encrypted websites.
MATTHEW WITTERS was a leading seller of fentanyl on AlphaBay and Dream Market between 2015 and 2017. In 2018, law enforcement seized $1.1 million in cryptocurrency, cash and other funds WITTERS admitted were the proceeds of his drug trafficking.
At the sentencing hearing U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour ordered forfeiture of those funds.
WITTERS came to the attention of law enforcement when his contact information and dark web monikers were discovered in residences connected with drug trafficking in Oklahoma and California.