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KYLE ENOS BOUGHT A BANNED INDUSTRIAL CHEMICAL ON THE DARK WEB FROM LABS IN CHINA AND USED IT TO MAKE 'DIET PILLS' IN A BEDROOM OPERATION WHICH SPANNED THE GLOBE 14:44, 03 Jun 2025
Video footage has exposed the messy bedroom where a Maesteg man was using a banned chemical bought on the dark web to make illegal and dangerous 'diet pills'. Kyle Enos bought the
industrial chemical from labs in China and mixed it with other substances to produce the tablets which he sold online in the UK and globally. When officers from Tarian - the southern Wales
serious and organised crime unit - raided Enos's house in Maesteg they found two kilos of the chemical along with a pill press and packaging. The chemical - 2,4-Dinitrophenol or
"DNP" - is poisonous to humans and banned for human consumption in Britain. _DON’T MISS A COURT REPORT BY SIGNING UP__ __TO OUR CRIME NEWSLETTER HERE_ The raid was captured on
officers' body-worn video cameras. Article continues below Cardiff Crown Court heard that the 33-year-old defendant shipped the pills to customers as far afield as Hawaii and Australia
by disguising them as vitamins and minerals. He took payments in a variety of means including cryptocurrency. You can read more about the court case here. At the time the defendant was
making and selling the tablets, Enos had only been out of prison for a matter of months after serving an eight year sentence for supplying the powerful opioid fentanyl online using the
pseudonym "sovietbear". Such was the potency of fentanyl the defendant was selling that, following his arrest, police went through his contacts list and found four people on the
database - including two in Wales - who had died. Kyle Enos, formerly of Newport but now of Station Road, Maesteg, had previously pleaded guilty to importing, acquiring or using a regulated
substance without licence; supplying a regulated substance to the public without a licence, supplying a regulated poison by a person other than a pharmacist; and five counts of failing to
comply with a serious crime prevention order when he appeared in the dock for sentencing. Article continues below With a discount for his guilty pleas the defendant was sentenced to three
years in prison. He will serve up to half the sentence in custody before being released on licence to serve the remainder in the community. GET DAILY BREAKING NEWS updates on your phone by
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