Mt Barker personal trainer Sebastian Scott Adcock pleads guilty to drug dealing after dark web crime bust

A privately educated personal trainer has come clean on his drug offending after police uncovered a dark web dealing operation.

An Adelaide Hills personal trainer turned dark web drug dealer has confessed to his crimes in court in front of his family, with prosecutors agreeing the majority of his charges could be thrown out.

Sebastian Scott Adcock has confessed to his crimes in court in front of his family. Pictures: Instagram

Sebastian Scott Adcock, 26 of Mount Barker, stood silently in a blue suit as his lawyer told the Adelaide Magistrates Court his client would be admitting to 15 of his 74 original charges.

Sitting in the public gallery, his family watched on quietly as the guilty pleas were entered.

Adcock, who has shared his journey as a personal trainer on social media platforms, was arrested last year after an investigation into a dark web money laundering and drug trafficking operation.

In a press conference in October last year, SA Police said Adcock had been importing drugs from overseas and peddling them on an online marketplace under the handle DopamineDealer and several different aliases.

Sebastian Scott Adcock has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking after alleged dark web offending. Pictures: Instagram

A large group of his family watched in court as his lawyer entered guilty pleas. Pictures: Instagram

He was allegedly selling a variety of illicit drugs including stimulants, hallucinogens as well as opioids known as ‘nitazenes’.

Customers were able to place drug orders using cryptocurrency while the vendor would prepare the shipments from one of the storage units, police said.

An $80,000 car and approximately $10,000 in cash were also claimed as proceeds of crime.

In documents released to The Advertiser, police allege Mr Adcock had been trafficking commercial quantities of drugs between August and September last year.

The drugs Mr Adcock was accused of trafficking include cocaine, heroin, ketamine, MDMA, LSD, and other illicit substances.

In August, prosecutors withdrew 26 further drug trafficking charges against him, leaving him with 33 left to answer.

But in court on Wednesday morning, Adcock confessed to two counts of trafficking in a commercial quantity of a controlled drug, four counts of trafficking in a large commercial quantity of a controlled drug, eight counts of trafficking (type unknown) of a controlled drug and one count of money laundering.

Seb Adcock leaving court after a previous hearing.

Accepting his guilty pleas to those 15 charges, prosecutors then dropped the remaining counts against him.

“Your Honour, we withdraw the balance of the charges,” the prosecutor said.

Magistrate Justin Wickens remanded Adcock on continuing bail to face the District Court in January where a date will be set for sentencing submissions.

On a Facebook page dedicated to his personal training business, Adcock shared videos and photos of himself in the gym.

In the page’s description, he said he had studied to be a fully qualified personal trainer from 2017.