ARRESTED

‘Drug Llama’ Accused of Trafficking Over 50,000 Fentanyl Pills

The 31-year-old woman is also suspected of selling drugs that killed a 10-month-old.

A San Diego woman known on the dark web as “Drug Llama” has been arrested for allegedly shipping “more than 50,000 fentanyl pills throughout the country,” the Los Angeles Times reports. Melissa Scanlan, 31, is accused of selling fentanyl pills called “pressed blues” and other drugs on the dark web’s Dream Market. When authorities searched her home last month, Scanlan allegedly said she obtained the drugs through a Mexican cartel. The return address on the drug parcels she sent out linked to one of Scanlan’s old businesses, and a related PayPal account showed “thousands of transactions linked to the drug sales,” prosecutors allege. Scanlan is also being investigated for allegedly selling pills that killed a 10-month-old and a 41-year-old woman. The father of the infant, who lived in the San Diego area, allegedly left the drugs within reach of the child and was later found unresponsive. Scanlan has been arrested on charges of conspiring to distribute drugs, misbranding drugs, and being part of an “international money-laundering conspiracy.”