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For weeks, Aaron Shamo had felt a sense of foreboding. He didn't know how to describe it really. But sitting in his basement, playing Xbox, it was a feeling he just couldn't shake.
It was two days before Thanksgiving, and outside his split-level home in Cottonwood Heights it looked like the first big storm of winter was on its way. It was a little unusual for a 26-year-old to be able to afford to live in a neighborhood like this, where houses went for half a million dollars and the neighbor across the street had a koi pond and a big cream-colored boat, but there was nothing about Shamo that gave anyone pause. An Eagle Scout, he’d been a deacon in the Mormon church as a kid, passing the sacrament on Sundays. But these days he didn’t go to church much.
Neighbors noticed he slept in and seemed to go to bed late, but that wasn’t really weird either, even for a 26-year-old. They’d see him pulling out of his driveway in his black BMW, or wearing a tank top to show off his ripped physique. Shamo would wave, maybe say hi, but he mostly kept to himself.
No one who lived on Titian Way would ever guess the DEA considered him one of the most successful drug dealers in Utah, a kingpin of something called the darknet. And no one would ever suspect he had $1.2 million in cash tucked away in his basement.
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