Delco Man Trafficked Fentanyl From China: Feds

A Delaware County man is accused of trafficking fentanyl, a deadly synthetic opioid, from China and selling it on a dark net marketplace, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Henry Konah Koffie, 32, of Darby, is accused of importing and distributing a controlled substance resulting in overdose deaths in the Portland, Oregon area, ICE said.

Koffie was ordered detained awaiting trial at a sentencing hearing July 18 in Philadelphia and will be transferred from the Federal Detention Center in Philadelphia to the District of Oregon, according to ICE.

Koffie was taken into custody after the Portland Oregon Police Bureau, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s, Homeland Security Investigations Portland, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service was launched following two overdose deaths in the Portland area, ICE said.

Koffie is accused of using online monikers "NARCOBOSS" and "DNMKINGPIN" on a dark net marketplace to sell fentanyl between July 7 2015 and June 16, 2017, according to ICE.

ICE said between those dates, those monikers made more than 3,700 transactions that totaled 7 kilograms of fentanyl and generated $284,800 worth of bitcoin, a digital currency.

Investigators learned that the bitcoin transactions were linked to Koffie, ICE said.

This month, Homeland Security Investigators in the Philadelphia area executed two federal search warrants at Koffie’s residence seizing approximately 500 grams of suspected fentanyl, miscellaneous documents related to the distribution of fentanyl, suspected micro cellulous (a binding agent used in pill production), scales, electronic media and bank statements, ICE said. Bank seizures resulted in the collection of approximately $137,000 from Koffie’s accounts, according to ICE.

In just over a year, Koffie allegedly had more than 14 packages of suspected fentanyl originating in China and Hong Kong shipped to addresses belonging to his family members, ICE said.

"NARCOBOSS" was also the target of investigations in the Western District of Pennsylvania conducted by Pittsburgh FBI, USPIS and HSI as well as the District of North Dakota by HSI, USPIS and the Grand Forks Narcotics Task Force, ICE said. He was arraigned in the Western District of Pennsylvania on one count of distributing fentanyl.

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