MADISON, Wis. -- Drug dealing has moved online, and Wisconsin recently took center stage in a large bust of a Chicago man selling drugs like OxyContin, marijuana and cocaine over the Internet.

A confidential informant from Wisconsin provided federal investigators with an e-mail address run by Tommy Franzl, through which they were able to call up a drug menu and place orders for illicit drugs.

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"What you customarily think about in drug dealing is somebody who's dealing drugs on the street corner, and you have hand-to-hand buys," said U.S. Attorney J.B. Van Hollen. "What we have here is somebody who was blatantly selling controlled substances over the Internet."

Franzl has been arrested, and is currently in the Dane County Jail.

"We ended up keeping the search warrant and indictment against (Franzl) sealed in the courts so we could continue to run his operation," Van Hollen said.

At the federal court house in Madison Wednesday, nine people from across the United States were indicted on drug charges from contacting Franzl's e-mail, unaware that drug agents had taken their dealer's place.