The government says Victor Hernandez wasn’t “just” a cocaine dealer, but a sophisticated pill pusher who peddled fake Xanax on the dark web out of a clandestine drug lab in his Detroit home that produced more than 20,000 pills per hour and made him a millionaire.
His lawyer says he was a hardworking mason and roofer who battled obesity and back pain, took oxycodone for it and got so hooked that it “led him to sell drugs on the internet to make more money” to buy the potent painkiller.
His addiction — not to mention the fake Xanax pills he sold by the thousands — would cost him everything.
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