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The Independent
6 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.'
Sky News
6 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
6 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.
BBC News
29-05-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Maesteg man who sold diet pills made from DNP poison jailed
A man who sold diet pills on the internet which were actually poison has been jailed for three 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 pressed it into pills in his bedroom in Maesteg, 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 admitted a total of eight charges at Cardiff Magistrates Court including possessing 2, 4 DNP, supplying the drug and supplying a regulated had also admitted five charges of failing to comply with a Serious Crime Prevention Order (SCPO) handed to him following his fentanyl 2018 he was sentenced to eight years in prison for supplying "significant amounts" of the opioid, fentanyl to a total of 166 of those contacts, including Jack Barton, 23, a Cardiff University student, and Arran Rees, 34, from Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, charges were brought in relation to their deaths as it could not be said with certainty Enos had supplied the 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. 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 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 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 took payment for the drugs by bank transfer, bitcoin and other cryptocurrency from customers around the world, including as far away as New has refused access to police to some of his is the drug which led to the death of Eloise Parry, 21, at hospital in Wrexham, in 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 can also be seen next to his bed by the pill press machine and another washing up bowl filled with 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.
