Moms are generally a forgiving bunch, but when you’ve sold a tonne (literally) of drugs from a room in her flat I imagine she’d be really, really disappointed.

Known in Leipzig, Germany as the ‘Bedroon Dealer’, the 20-year-old has been sentenced to seven years in juvenile detention for running an operation described by police as ‘a highly sophisticated Internet-based operation’. Here’s the Guardian:

Among the drugs the young man had offered on the encrypted so-called dark net and then the open Internet and sold via mail delivery were hashish, ecstasy tablets, cocaine, LSD and prescription pills.

Police said S. had sold 914 kilos (about 2,000 pounds) of drugs worth some four million euros ($4.4 million), and that they found around 300 kilos when they arrested him in February this year.

Diversifying his portfolio I see, although I imagine that term refers more to the stock market than dealing drugs. So what did mother dearest have to say?

His 48-year-old mother earlier told the trial that the one-time “wild child” had become a loner, had no girlfriend, never went on holidays and had barred her from his bedroom for two years.

The youngster had dealt the drugs using encrypted email, took payment in Bitcoin and stored his riches in bank accounts opened with fake IDs. He was eventually banned when neighbours opened a parcel left in the hallway outside and found some interesting contents.

You’d think with all those riches he may have moved into a place of his own but I guess there’s no place like home.

[source:guardian]