Amino Asylum Raid Timeline: June 2025 and the Overnight Shutdown | Artemis Labs
Amino Asylum Raid Timeline: The Night a Major Supplier Went Dark
Published August 21, 2026 · Artemis Labs
The Amino Asylum raid timeline is shorter than most researchers assume: FDA agents entered the vendor’s warehouse facility on or about June 18, 2025, and by the next morning the website was offline, payment processing had been terminated, and pending orders sat frozen. This article lays out the dated record, then the contingency habits it argues for.
Key findings
- Overnight, not gradual. Amino Asylum went from roughly 400,000 monthly visitors — a third-party traffic estimate — to a dark site within a day of the June 2025 raid, with no wind-down notice for buyers.
- First physical raid on a major vendor. The Amino Asylum action escalated past the warning-letter wave: more than 100 FDA letters have gone to peptide sellers since September 2025, but June 2025 was the first time agents physically entered a major vendor’s facility.
- The verified record stops at the raid. Sources document the raid and its immediate consequences for Amino Asylum, not later legal outcomes; the guilty pleas often blended into this story belong to the separate Paradigm Peptides case.
The dated record
- On or about June 18, 2025 — FDA agents raid Amino Asylum’s warehouse facility, the first physical raid on a major research-peptide vendor.
- Overnight — the Amino Asylum website goes dark.
- The same window — payment processing is terminated.
- Immediately after — pending orders are frozen; buyers with open orders lose their order-status pages along with the site.
That is the entire verified sequence. Everything else circulating about Amino Asylum — ownership outcomes, charges, comebacks — sits outside the record that the two vendor-industry accounts in the References establish, and this article does not extend past them. What a researcher should look for in a replacement vendor is a separate question, taken up in our Amino Asylum alternatives article.
What a frozen order means in practice
An order frozen by a vendor shutdown is not a delayed order; it is a paid invoice with no counterparty. When Amino Asylum’s processing was cut, money already captured had no routine path back, goods not yet shipped had no one left to ship them, and the support inbox went down with the storefront. For a research program, the schedule cost is often larger than the dollar figure — a project timed around an inbound compound now waits on qualifying a new source from zero.
The pattern generalizes beyond one vendor. Peptide Sciences, the largest US research-peptide vendor of the period, halted all order processing with its March 6, 2026 closure announcement; a voluntary shutdown and a raid differ mechanically, but the buyer-side experience — open orders, closed vendor — rhymes. The running list of who has left this market is maintained on our 2025–2026 peptide vendor closures hub.
What happens to funds and purchase records
Two things vanish together when a vendor goes dark: the payment relationship and the paper trail. On funds — once a merchant’s processing is terminated, as Amino Asylum’s was, refunds stop being something the vendor can issue even if someone there wanted to. Whatever recourse remains lives on the buyer’s side of the transaction: card networks run formal dispute processes with fixed windows, while irreversible payment methods leave no dispute path at all. On records — order history, COA downloads, and lot documentation hosted on a vendor’s site are exactly as durable as the site itself.
Neither exposure can be fixed after a shutdown. Both can be largely eliminated before one, which is what the next section is for.
Contingency habits that cost nothing until the day they matter
Four practices, all cheap, all drawn from what Amino Asylum’s buyers lost:
- Archive every COA on receipt. Save the document to your own storage the day the order arrives. Our guide to reading a Certificate of Analysis covers what it should contain; none of that matters if your only copy lived on a dead vendor’s server.
- Keep your own lot-number log. Record vendor, compound, lot number, and receipt date in your lab records. If a question about material ever arises, the lot number is the key to everything — and it should not depend on a storefront staying online.
- Qualify a second supplier before you need one. Supplier redundancy is standard practice in laboratory purchasing generally; this market’s 2024–2026 record — a raid, a voluntary closure, a criminal case — argues it belongs here too. Our supplier-evaluation framework is written to make qualifying a second source fast.
- Prefer payment methods with a dispute path for a new vendor. First orders with an unproven supplier are precisely where formal recourse matters; keep irreversible payment methods for vendors that have already shipped to you reliably.
Where June 2025 sits in the enforcement wave
The Amino Asylum raid did not happen in a vacuum. December 10, 2024: FDA warning letters to four GLP-1-class sellers. June 2025: the Amino Asylum raid. December 10, 2025: guilty pleas in the separate Paradigm Peptides case. March 6, 2026: Peptide Sciences announces its closure. March 31, 2026: seven more warning letters in a single batch. July 30, 2026: sentencing in the Paradigm Peptides case. Across the same stretch, more than 100 FDA warning letters have gone to peptide and research-chemical sellers. A market reshaping itself at that pace makes contingency habits a baseline research skill, not pessimism.
Artemis Labs publishes its testing and policy documentation so that qualifying a supplier does not require guesswork, and maintains a research library of the primary literature behind its catalog. Compounds from Artemis Labs are supplied for laboratory research use only.
Frequently asked questions
When was the Amino Asylum raid?
On or about June 18, 2025, per the two vendor-industry accounts linked in the References. FDA agents entered Amino Asylum’s warehouse facility, and the site was offline by the following morning.
What happened to pending Amino Asylum orders?
They were frozen. Payment processing was terminated in the same window the site went dark, which means paid orders lost both their fulfilment path and their refund path at once — the buyer-side recourse that remained depended entirely on the payment method used.
Can I still retrieve a COA for an old Amino Asylum order?
Only if you saved a copy — documentation hosted on a vendor’s site goes down with the site, and Amino Asylum’s went dark overnight. This is the strongest argument for archiving every COA and lot number on receipt, from every supplier, as routine practice.
Was anyone at Amino Asylum convicted of a crime?
The sources verified for this timeline document the raid and its consequences only — no court outcome for Amino Asylum’s operators appears in them. The convictions circulating in vendor coverage (Matthew Kawa, Jennifer Stechkober) belong to the separate Paradigm Peptides case and should not be attributed to Amino Asylum.
References
- PS Peptides — “What Happened to Amino Asylum Peptides”
- The Peptide Catalog — “Amino Asylum Shut Down: Alternatives”
