{"id":389401,"date":"2026-09-03T16:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T16:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/389401\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T16:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T16:48:10","slug":"jacksonville-brothers-arrested-on-charges-of-distributing-counterfeit-oxycodone-pills-on-dark-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/389401\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville brothers arrested on charges of distributing counterfeit oxycodone pills on dark web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla.  \u2013 Two brothers from Jacksonville were arrested Aug. 28 on federal charges of conspiracy to distribute nitazenes \u2014 synthetic opioids that experts say can match or surpass the potency of fentanyl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Vladislav Chernyshov, 35, a naturalized U.S. citizen, and his brother Stanislav Chernyshov, 30, a Russian national illegally residing in Jacksonville, allegedly sold counterfeit oxycodone pills on the darknet under the moniker \u201cBarbaraWhite,\u201d according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">According to the U.S. Attorneys Office, the counterfeit pills were marketed as being \u201cfent free,\u201d but laboratory analysis identified several nitazene compounds in the pills, including Protonitazene, Metonitazene, N-Pyrrolidino Etonitazene and N-Pyrrolidino Isotonitazene \u2014 substances that have been found to be potentially more potent than fentanyl. The pills were designed to mimic the appearance of pharmaceutically manufactured oxycodone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Law enforcement launched the investigation following a fatal overdose in Arlington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">If convicted, both brothers face a maximum penalty of at least 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 Two brothers from Jacksonville were arrested Aug. 28 on federal charges of conspiracy to distribute&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-389401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}