The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday announced that two men have been sentenced to serve about six years each in federal prison for using AlphaBay and other darknet marketplaces – referring to a website that can only be reached by using the anonymizing Tor browser – to sell drugs.

Californian David Ryan Burchard, 40, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill to serve 80 months in prison, while Emil Vladimirov Babadjov, 33, who has both Bulgarian and U.S. nationality, was sentenced to serve 70 months in prison.

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