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Wales Online
11 hours ago
- Business
- Wales Online
Inside the messy bedroom where a dealer was making illegal 'diet pills'
Inside the messy bedroom where a dealer was making illegal 'diet pills' Kyle Enos bought a banned industrial chemical on the dark web from labs in China and used it to make 'diet pills' in a bedroom operation which spanned the globe Video footage has exposed the messy bedroom where a Maesteg man was using a banned chemical bought on the dark web to make illegal and dangerous 'diet pills'. Kyle Enos bought the industrial chemical from labs in China and mixed it with other substances to produce the tablets which he sold online in the UK and globally. When officers from Tarian - the southern Wales serious and organised crime unit - raided Enos's house in Maesteg they found two kilos of the chemical along with a pill press and packaging. The messy room where Kyle Enos made his 'diet pills' (Image: Tarian ) The chemical - 2,4-Dinitrophenol or "DNP" - is poisonous to humans and banned for human consumption in Britain. Don't miss a court report by signing up to our crime newsletter here The raid was captured on officers' body-worn video cameras. Article continues below Kyle Enos (Image: Tarian ) Cardiff Crown Court heard that the 33-year-old defendant shipped the pills to customers as far afield as Hawaii and Australia by disguising them as vitamins and minerals. He took payments in a variety of means including cryptocurrency. You can read more about the court case here. The pill press Enos used to make the tablets (Image: Tarian ) At the time the defendant was making and selling the tablets, Enos had only been out of prison for a matter of months after serving an eight year sentence for supplying the powerful opioid fentanyl online using the pseudonym "sovietbear". Such was the potency of fentanyl the defendant was selling that, following his arrest, police went through his contacts list and found four people on the database - including two in Wales - who had died. A batch of the chemical being mixed with cutting agents (Image: Tarian ) Kyle Enos, formerly of Newport but now of Station Road, Maesteg, had previously pleaded guilty to importing, acquiring or using a regulated substance without licence; supplying a regulated substance to the public without a licence, supplying a regulated poison by a person other than a pharmacist; and five counts of failing to comply with a serious crime prevention order when he appeared in the dock for sentencing. Article continues below With a discount for his guilty pleas the defendant was sentenced to three years in prison. He will serve up to half the sentence in custody before being released on licence to serve the remainder in the community.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Health
- Yahoo
Kyle Enos: Man who made and sold poisonous diet pills is jailed
A man who made and sold poisonous diet pills has been jailed. DNP is poisonous to humans and has been banned for human consumption in the UK. The industrial chemical, which is officially known as 2,4-Dinitrophenol, has been illegally sold as a pill for weight loss, according to police. Kyle Enos, 33, from Maesteg, Bridgend, was jailed for three years on Thursday after a multi-agency investigation. DNP can cause serious physical side effects or death, according to the Food Standards Agency. Enos was found to have purchased the pure form sodium salt of the powder from China via the dark web. He made the pills using cutting agents and a pill press in his bedroom and advertised them on a website he had made. After receiving orders via email, he would ship the products within the UK and beyond, disguising them as vitamins and minerals. Following the investigation, he was charged with multiple drug offences and pleaded guilty at Cardiff Magistrates' Court on 1 May. 'Extremely ill or even dying' He was sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court for one count of member of public import/acquire/possess/use of a regulated substance without licence, one count of supply regulated substance to member of public without verifying licence and one count of supply of regulated poison by person other than a pharmacist. He was also found to have failed to comply with a serious crime prevention order (SCPO) after a previous conviction for the supply of the Class A drug Fentanyl. Detective Constable Kieran Morris, of South Wales Police's regional organised crime unit (ROCU) Tarian, said Enos was supplying the pills "with no safety precautions in place", which could have led to buyers "becoming extremely ill or even dying". "Tarian ROCU are committed to safeguarding members of the public not only within our region, but across the United Kingdom and beyond," he added. Read more from Sky News: Alison Abbott, head of the National Crime Agency's prisons and lifetime management unit, said SCPOs were "a powerful tool" to help prevent those convicted of "serious offences" from reoffending after their release from prison. "This case should serve as a warning to others," she added. "As we did with Enos, we will actively monitor all those who are subject to such orders, and they will stay on our radar even after they are released from jail."
Wales Online
5 days ago
- Wales Online
He made 'diet pills' in his bedroom and sold them online but they contained something very dangerous
He made 'diet pills' in his bedroom and sold them online but they contained something very dangerous Kyle Enos bought an industrial chemical on the dark web which is banned for human consumption in the UK and used it to make illegal 'diet pills' which he sold online Kyle Enos (Image: Tarian ) A man used an industrial chemical bought from China on the dark web to make illegal and dangerous 'diet pills', a court has heard. Kyle Enos sold the pills to dieters around the UK and overseas, disguising the packages as harmless vitamin tablets. Cardiff Crown Court heard the 'diet tablets' were made with 2,4-Dinitrophenol - or DNP - an industrial chemical that is poisonous to humans and which is banned for human consumption in the UK. The chemical can cause death as well as other serious physical side-effects. At the time he was making and selling the pills the defendant had only been out of prison for a matter of months after serving a lengthy sentence for supplying the powerful opioid fentanyl. The court heard Enos would purchase the pure form sodium salt of 2,4-Dinitrophenol on the dark web from China. He then mixed the orange powder with various cutting agents and used a pill press in his bedroom to manufacture the tablets. The defendant advertised the pills - and other regulated medications - on a website he had created, and took payments in cryptocurrencies. The court heard Enos received orders via email and shipped the pills - disguised as vitamins and minerals - to customers around the UK and internationally as far afield as Hawaii and Australia. A batch of the chemical being mixed with cutting agents (Image: Tarian ) The 33-year-old was arrested in July last year when officers from Tarian, the regional organised crime unit for southern Wales, raided his home and found more than two kilos of DNP along with a pill press. The raid followed information received from the National Crime Agency. For the latest court reports sign up to our crime newsletter Kyle Enos, formerly of Newport but now of Station Road, Maesteg, had previously pleaded guilty to importing, acquiring or using a regulated substance without licence; supplying a regulated substance to the public without a licence, supplying a regulated poison by a person other than a pharmacist; and five counts of failing to comply with a serious crime prevention order when he appeared in the dock for sentencing. The pill press Enos used to make the tablets (Image: Tarian ) In 2018 the defendant was convicted of importing, supplying, and exporting "significant amounts" of the Class A drug fentanyl and sentenced to eight years in prison. That offending involved Enos - using the online pseudonym "sovietbear" - purchasing the synthetic opioid from labs in China, mixing it with other substances, and selling it to customers around the world using the dark web. Such was the potency of the drug the defendant was selling police went through his contacts list following his arrest and found four people on the database had died, though it could not be proved that the fentanyl supplied by Enos was related to their deaths. Among thd deaths were those of 23-year-old university student Jack Barton, who died in Cardiff in January, 2017, and Aaron Rees, aged 34, from Ammanford who was found dead in March, 2017. As well as being handed a lengthy jail term Enos was made subject of a serious crime prevention order which, among other things, banned him from selling products online and banned him from accessing the dark web. The DNP offending put him in breach of that order. The defendant had only been out of prison for a matter of months following the fentanyl conviction when he began dealing in the illegal diet pills. With a discount for his guilty pleas the defendant was sentenced to three years in prison. He will serve up to half the sentence in custody before being released on licence to serve the remainder in the community. Speaking after the sentencing, detective constable Kieran Morris of Tarian said Enos was caught thanks to a "proactive partnership investigation" involving the National Crime Agency, the National Food Crime Unit, the Ministry of Defence, HM Prison and Probation Service, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Authority, and South Wales Police. Article continues below He said: "The swift arrest of Enos and the removal of these poisonous diet pills from the open market was our utmost priority. Enos was supplying the pills with no safety precautions in place, and no advice on dosages. "This could have led to buyers becoming extremely ill or even dying. Tarian regional organised crime unit are committed to safeguarding members of the public not only within our region, but across the United Kingdom and beyond. The sentence handed down to Enos today should serve as a warning to others engaging in similar criminality." The head of the National Crime Agency's prisons and lifetime management unit, Alison Abbott, said crime prevention orders were a "powerful tool" to help prevent offenders from continuing their criminality when they came out of prison, and she said the case of Enos should serve as a warning to others that the agency would "actively monitor all those who are subject to such orders" when they are in the community.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Health
- Yahoo
Man who sold diet pills made from poison jailed
A man who sold diet pills on the internet which were actually poison has been jailed for three years. Kyle Enos, 33, had only been out of prison for a few months for selling fentanyl online when he bought the drug 2, 4 Dinotrophenol, or DNP, on the dark web from suppliers in India and China. He pressed it into pills in his bedroom in Maesteg, Bridgend. Cardiff Crown Court heard DNP is a regulated substance classed as both a poison and a secondary explosive that has caused at least 34 deaths in the UK. Judge Simon Mills told Enos his website gave the impression that the tablets were produced in "some sort of professional laboratory by people in white coats and qualifications and expertise". Officers raided Enos' property on Station Road in Maesteg on 25 July 2024 and found 2.5kg of orange powder and a machine used to press it into pill form. Enos admitted a total of eight charges at Cardiff Magistrates Court including possessing 2, 4 DNP, supplying the drug and supplying a regulated poison. He had also admitted five charges of failing to comply with a Serious Crime Prevention Order (SCPO) handed to him following his fentanyl convictions. In 2018 he was sentenced to eight years in prison for supplying "significant amounts" of the opioid, fentanyl to a total of 166 contacts. Four of those contacts, including Jack Barton, 23, a Cardiff University student, and Arran Rees, 34, from Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, died. No charges were brought in relation to their deaths as it could not be said with certainty Enos had supplied the fentanyl. Having served some of his eight-year sentence, he was released on licence, in 2021, but was recalled to prison in June 2022, before being released again in August 2022. Organised crime group sentenced after drugs bust Drug production booming in UK's empty high streets £250m drug bust warning to criminals, say police Under the terms of his SCPO he was not allowed to sell products online or in a virtual marketplace; he was not allowed to access the dark web and had to notify a National Crime Agency (NCA) officer about possessing mobile phones and laptops and creating his own internet page. Enos pleaded guilty to five failures to comply with his SCPO having used a laptop to access the dark web to set up a Proton email account with end-to-end encryption and creating up a website selling DNT. The court was shown screengrabs of his online marketplace which included suggestions of products customers "may also like" giving the impression of it being a legitimate pharmacy. He took payment for the drugs by bank transfer, bitcoin and other cryptocurrency from customers around the world, including as far away as New Zealand. Enos has refused access to police to some of his devices. DNP is the drug which led to the death of Eloise Parry, 21, at hospital in Wrexham, in 2015. The Glyndwr University student, died after taking eight capsules. In bodycam footage shown to the court the powder can be seen in a washing up bowl on his bedroom floor next to an empty pizza box. Underwear can also be seen next to his bed by the pill press machine and another washing up bowl filled with pills. Judge Simon Mills said he wanted the footage to be released to the media for members of the public to be made aware of the unsanitary conditions in which the pills were made. "You were selling poison to the general public," said Judge Mills. "Your pharmacy was in fact your house or flat and you were preparing and pressing the pills you were selling to the general public on a filthy piece of equipment amongst training shoes and discarded underwear." He was sentenced to a total of 36 months in prison. "You have a propensity for selling dangerous substances to people," said Judge Mills, adding: "This is a habit that you must stop." "The court doesn't know the full extent of the harm that you did by peddling this horrendous substance. "If any of your product is still out there in the community and it can be shown to have killed someone, you should face an investigation for manslaughter, but hopefully that will not happen." A Proceeds of Crime Act hearing will be held later this year.
New Indian Express
19-05-2025
- Science
- New Indian Express
Trump's US budget will cut ocean data, leaving boaters, anglers and forecasters scrambling for info
Capt. Ed Enos makes his living as a harbor pilot in Hawaii, clambering aboard arriving ships in the predawn hours and guiding them into port. His world revolves around wind speeds, current strength and wave swells. When Enos is bobbing in dangerous waters in the dark, his cellphone is his lifeline: with a few taps he can access the Integrated Ocean Observing System and pull up the data needed to guide what are essentially floating warehouses safely to the dock. But maybe not for much longer. US President Donald Trump wants to eliminate all federal funding for the observing system's regional operations. Scientists say the cuts could mean the end of efforts to gather real-time data crucial to navigating treacherous harbors, plotting tsunami escape routes and predicting hurricane intensity. 'It's the last thing you should be shutting down,' Enos said. 'There's no money wasted. Right at a time when we should be getting more money to do more work to benefit the public, they want to turn things off. That's the wrong strategy at the wrong time for the wrong reasons.' Monitoring system tracks all things ocean The IOOS system launched about 20 years ago. It's made up of 11 regional associations in multiple states and territories, including the Virgin Islands, Alaska, Hawaii, Washington state, Michigan, South Carolina and Southern California. The regional groups are networks of university researchers, conservation groups, businesses and anyone else gathering or using maritime data. The associations are the Swiss army knife of oceanography, using buoys, submersible drones and radar installations to track water temperature, wind speed, atmospheric pressure, wave speeds, swell heights and current strength. The networks monitor the Great Lakes, US coastlines, the Gulf of Mexico, which Trump renamed the Gulf of America, the Gulf of Alaska, the Caribbean and the South Pacific and upload member data to public websites in real time.
