The parents of a Park City teenager who died in 2016 from overdosing on a synthetic opioid are suing the companies that helped bring the drugs from China into Utah.
The lawsuit, filed Friday in Utah’s U.S. District Court, argues the now-defunct online darknet (a restricted access and covert Internet network) market AlphaBay and the estate of its deceased founder, Alexandre Cazes, in addition to The Onion Router (or TOR) darknet web browser and China Postal Express & Logistics, a postal service, are liable for 13-year-old Grant Seaver’s death. Seaver’s friend Ryan Ainsworth, also 13, died within two days of Seaver in September 2016 after they both ingested the synthetic drug, called “pink," “pinky” and “U-47700.