• Glendale man gets 5 years in prison for role in darknet drug ring February 18, 2026 05:50 AM 0 A Glendale man was sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison for his role in a darknet drug trafficking operation that sold cocaine, methamphetamine, MDMA, and ketamine to customers across the United States. • 36-year-old Davit Avalyan received a 57-month sentence from U.S. • District Judge Percy Anderson in Los Angeles after pleading guilty in October 2025 to one count of conspiracy to distribute narcotics. • Avalyan is the last of four defendants to be sentenced in the case. • His accomplices, Hayk Grigoryan (also known as Hayk Greg), Gurgen Nersesyan (also known as Guro Tiko), and Hrant Gevorgyan, have already received prison sentences of 10 years, 43 months, and 24 months, respectively. • Prosecutors saidAvalyan and his co-conspirators ran the operation from September 2018 to February 2025, maintaining a large network of darknet vendor accounts (including multiple storefronts with names like JoyInc, PlanetHollywood, and LaFarmacia) across multiple narcotics online marketplaces.
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- A Glendale man was sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison for his role in a darknet drug trafficking operation that sold cocaine, methamphetamine, MDMA, and ketamine to customers across the United States. 36-year-old Davit Avalyan received a 57-month sentence from U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson in Los Angeles after pleading guilty in October 2025 to one count of conspiracy to distribute narcotics. Avalyan is the last of four defendants to be sentenced in the case. His accomplices, Hayk Grigoryan (also known as Hayk Greg), Gurgen Nersesyan (also known as Guro Tiko), and Hrant Gevo
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