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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.
The Independent
4 days ago
- Health
- The Independent
Man who sold weight loss pills made from poison jailed
A man who sold weight-loss pills online which were made from poison has been jailed for three years. Kyle Enos, 33, was charged with multiple drug offences and pleaded guilty at Cardiff Magistrates' Court earlier this year. Enos, from Maesteg, Bridgend, in South Wales, had previously been in prison for selling fentanyl online. Soon after being released, he bought the drug 2,4-dinotrophenol, or DNP. DNP is an industrial chemical which is poisonous to humans and has been banned for human consumption in the UK. It can cause serious physical side effects and even death in some cases. Enos was arrested by officers from Tarian, the Regional Organised Crime Unit (ROCU) for southern Wales, in July 2024 after they received information from the National Crime Agency (NCA). Enos purchased the pure form sodium salt of 2,4-dinitrophenol powder from China via the dark web. He then manufactured the pills using cutting agents and a pill press in his bedroom. He advertised the pills and other regulated medications on a website he created. Enos would ship the products, disguised as vitamins and minerals, both domestically within the UK and internationally. He was sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court on Thursday to 36 months in prison for multiple counts relating to the supply of a regulated substance and failure to comply with a serious crime prevention order. Detective constable Kieran Morris, of Tarian ROCU, said: 'Operation Guazuma was a proactive partnership investigation with the NCA, 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. '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 ROCU 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.'
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."
Sky News
5 days ago
- Health
- Sky News
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. 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.
Daily Mail
5 days ago
- General
- Daily Mail
Moment police find suspicious orange powder in diet pill seller's bedroom - as he is jailed for lacing weight-loss drugs with POISON
This is the moment police found suspicious orange powder in the bedroom of a man who sold diet pills laced with poison on the internet. Police body worn camera footage shows officers raiding Kyle Enos's property in Maesteg, Wales, on July 25 last year. They found 2.5kg of orange powder on the floor next to a pizza box and a machine used to press it into pill form. Draws full of tablets and several viles of clear liquid were also discovered in Enos's makeshift laboratory. The 33-year-old had been out of prison just a few months when he bought the toxic chemical DNP on the dark web from suppliers in India and China. DNP, also known as 2, 4 Dinotrophenol, is a classed as both a poison and a regulated substance that has been linked to 34 deaths in the UK, Cardiff Crown Court heard. Judge Simon Mills said Enos's website gave the impression the diet pills had been produced in 'some sort of professional laboratory by people in white coats and qualifications and expertise'. The 33-year-old pleaded guilty to a total of eight charges and was jailed for three years. He admitted possessing 2, 4 DNP, supplying the drug and supplying a regulated poison. Enos had also been charged with five counts of failing to comply with a Serious Crime Prevention Order (SCPO). This had been handed to him following a conviction he was given in 2018 for selling fentanyl to 166 contacts. Four of the contacts, including Jack Barton, 23, a Cardiff University student, and Arran Rees, 34, from Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, died. Enos was handed an eight year prison sentence but no charges were brought in relation to the deaths as it could not be determined with certainty that he had supplied the fentanyl.
