An FBI ‘Asset’ Helped Run a Dark Web Site That Sold Fentanyl-Laced Drugs for Years

A staffer of the Incognito dark web market was secretly controlled by the FBI—and still allegedly approved the sale of fentanyl-tainted pills, including those from a dealer linked to a confirmed death.

In a Manhattan courtroom earlier this month, Arkansas doctor David Churchill described the day he found the body of his 27-year-old son, Reed, after a fatal dose of fentanyl: half on the couch, half on the floor, “cold and dead and stiff,” as Churchill told the court.

“As you might imagine, it was the worst day of my life,” the father said, standing beside his wife and suppressing tears. “We've been gutted by this, and we have to live with it every day.”

Churchill was speaking at the sentencing hearing for Lin Rui-Siang, a convicted administrator of the dark web drug market Incognito, which sold more than $100 million in narcotics before it ceased operation in ...