In this photo that was introduced as evidence at the Aaron Shamo trial, shows fentanyl-laced pills collected during the investigation. Shamo built a multimillion-dollar fentanyl trafficking empire from his computer with a few millennial friends. The case prosecutors brought against him reveals the ease with which the drug that has killed tens of thousands now moves around the world: powder up to 100 times stronger than morphine was bought online from China, shaped into replicas of oxycodone in Shamo’s basement, resold on the internet’s black markets and mailed to thousands. (U.S. Attorneys Office for Utah via AP)
A pile of dozens of white pills is pictutred.
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