In the quiet corridors of ordinary commerce, a Massachusetts man with a long criminal past built a business that moved some of the most dangerous materials on earth — Russian plutonium, toxic thallium, and worse — through the everyday postal system to dozens of unsuspecting or complicit recipients across the country and beyond. Jacob Miller's October 2025 guilty plea on five federal counts reveals how the boundaries between legitimate trade, radiological threat, and human exploitation can collapse within a single enterprise. His case asks a question that will outlast his sentencing: how many o
Massachusetts felon guilty of illegally selling Russian plutonium to 67 customers
Radioactive material circulated through ordinary mail to dozens of recipients
Mark
How does someone even acquire plutonium from Russia in the first place? That seems like the kind of thing with serious gatekeeping.
Mimi
The source material doesn't specify how Miller made the connection or who his supplier was. We know he imported it and arranged for it to be mailed to his home, but the mechanics of the actual transaction—who he contacted, how payment worked, whether there were intermediaries—that's not detailed in the reporting.
Luke
Right. And that's a real gap. We know the outcome, but the operational question of how a felon in Massachusetts taps a Russian plutonium source is genuinely important for understanding the vulnerability here. The reporting confirms the crime but doesn't explain the supply chain.
Mark
What about the customers? Sixty-seven people bought plutonium. Were they collectors? Scientists? Did anyone know what they were actually receiving?
Mimi
The reporting doesn't characterize the buyers at all. We don't know if they were hobbyists, whether they understood the hazard, whether any of them faced charges. Miller sold through his own business and through Bonanza, so there's a retail storefront quality to it, but beyond that we're in the dark.
Luke
That's another critical unknown. The story is about the seller, not the supply chain downstream. We don't know if this created an actual public health risk or if the material was inert, if buyers knew what they had, if anyone got hurt. The reporting confirms the illegality but leaves the actual danger unquantified.
Mark
The child pornography charges seem almost separate from the nuclear material trafficking. Why are they bundled together?
Mimi
They're separate crimes, but they were prosecuted together because they were discovered in the same investigation. When agents executed the search warrant on his residence in April 2025, they found both the explosives and ammunition alongside the child abuse material on his devices.
Luke
That's fair, but it's worth noting that the two crimes don't necessarily indicate a single conspiracy or operation. They're concurrent charges against the same person, but the reporting doesn't suggest they're connected—it's more that his home was a repository for multiple federal violations.
Der Puls
- A convicted felon quietly imported Russian plutonium into his Massachusetts home and mailed it to 67 customers over five years, exploiting the trust embedded in ordinary postal infrastructure.
- The same man sold highly toxic thallium to 71 additional customers and kept firearms, ammunition, and explosive powder in his home — all illegal under his prior felony status.
- Investigators arrested Miller in April 2025 and found child sexual abuse material on his devices accessed the day before the search, adding a deeply disturbing dimension to an already alarming case.
- Miller pleaded guilty to five federal counts, including unauthorized importation of nuclear material and child pornography possession, and has remained in custody since his arrest.
- Sentencing is set for January 21, 2026, but the broader investigation — into who received radioactive material and why — remains open and unresolved.
In the quiet corridors of ordinary commerce, a Massachusetts man with a long criminal past built a business that moved some of the most dangerous materials on earth — Russian plutonium, toxic thallium, and worse — through the everyday postal system to dozens of unsuspecting or complicit recipients across the country and beyond. Jacob Miller's October 2025 guilty plea on five federal counts reveals how the boundaries between legitimate trade, radiological threat, and human exploitation can collapse within a single enterprise. His case asks a question that will outlast his sentencing: how many others received what he sent, and to what end?
Jacob D. Miller, a 44-year-old Massachusetts resident with felony convictions dating back to 2004, pleaded guilty in October 2025 to a federal case that exposed a years-long operation trafficking radioactive and toxic materials through the U.S. mail. His prior convictions — for child pornography and possessing an explosive device — had earned him years of probation and jail time, yet they did little to interrupt what came next.
After his release, Miller launched a business called Collect The Periodic Table, selling elemental samples through his own storefront and the online retailer Bonanza. Beneath that veneer of hobbyist commerce, he was importing plutonium directly from Russia and shipping it to approximately 67 customers across the United States and internationally between late 2020 and early 2025 — all through postal channels explicitly prohibited from carrying radioactive materials. He also sold thallium, a highly toxic element, to roughly 71 customers over a similar period.
Federal agents arrested Miller on April 9, 2025. A search of his home turned up six firearms, ammunition, and bottles of explosive powder — all illegal for a convicted felon to possess. His devices contained child sexual abuse material accessed as recently as the day before the search warrant was executed.
Miller pleaded guilty to five counts: felon in possession of ammunition and explosive materials, importing nuclear material without lawful authority, mailing hazardous substances, and possessing child pornography. He has been held in federal custody since his arrest. Sentencing is scheduled for January 21, 2026 — though the question of who received his radioactive shipments, and to what purpose, remains an open thread in the investigation.
Jacob D. Miller, a 44-year-old Massachusetts resident with a history of felony convictions, pleaded guilty in October 2025 to a sprawling federal case that exposed how radioactive material from Russia had moved through the U.S. postal system to dozens of customers across the country and beyond. The charges against him—importing nuclear material without authorization, mailing hazardous substances, possessing firearms and explosives as a felon, and possessing child sexual abuse material—painted a portrait of someone operating with apparent impunity across multiple federal jurisdictions and laws.
Miller's criminal history stretched back two decades. In February 2004, he was convicted in Massachusetts state court of possessing child pornography and an explosive device. He received seven years of probation for the pornography conviction and was sentenced to two and a half years in jail plus ten years of probation for the explosives charges. After his release, rather than fade from public view, he launched a business called Collect The Periodic Table, or CTPT, which sold elemental samples to customers. The business operated both through a dedicated storefront and via Bonanza, a third-party online retailer.
What made CTPT distinctive—and illegal—was what Miller chose to stock. He imported plutonium directly from Russia and arranged for shipments to arrive at his Massachusetts home. Between late December 2020 and March 2025, he sold plutonium to approximately 67 customers scattered across the United States and internationally. He used the U.S. mail to send the material to them, despite plutonium being classified as a hazardous substance explicitly prohibited from being shipped through the postal system. In the same period, Miller also sold thallium, an equally toxic element, to about 71 customers through the same channels, again using mail service that was barred from carrying such materials. The sales spanned from October 2017 through April 2025.
Federal investigators arrested Miller on April 9, 2025, and a grand jury indicted him four days later. When agents searched his residence in April, they recovered a box containing bottles of explosive powder, numerous rounds of ammunition, and six firearms—all unlawfully possessed given his prior felony convictions. His laptop and cell phone contained child sexual abuse material that he had accessed as recently as the day before the search warrant was executed.
Miller pleaded guilty to five federal counts: being a felon in possession of ammunition, being a felon in possession of explosive materials, importing nuclear material without lawful authority, mailing hazardous materials, and possession of child pornography. He has remained in federal custody since his arrest. His sentencing is scheduled for January 21, 2026, when a federal judge will determine the length of his imprisonment for crimes that allowed radioactive material to circulate through ordinary mail channels to dozens of recipients whose identities and intentions remain part of the ongoing investigation.
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Miller imported plutonium from Russia and arranged for it to be mailed to him at his Massachusetts residence, then sold it to customers across the U.S. and abroad through his business and online retailers— U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts
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