Operation SpecTor began in October 2021 and targeted dealers in the U.S., South America and Europe, the Justice Department said.
More than 1,800 pounds of drugs were seized and 288 people arrested in a years-long international law enforcement operation targeting darknet drug peddlers across eight countries, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.
The result of coordinated law enforcement actions with international partners, the operation resulted in the seizure of 1,874 pounds of drugs, including more than 140 pounds of fentanyl or fentanyl-laced narcotics, as well as $53.4 million in cash and cryptocurrencies, according to the Justice Department.
Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. Federal investigations have targeted both the work of illegal actors on the darknet and the proliferation of deadly fentanyl throughout the U.S. Last year, the FBI and law enforcement partners took down Hydra, seizing the servers of the world's largest darknet marketplace for drugs, stolen identities and other illicit goods.
Garland said that even with these initiatives, efforts by the federal government to target crime on the darknet present a"whack-a-mole" problem for investigators, with criminals flocking from one platform to another as marketplaces are dismantled."We are whacking as hard as we can," Garland said as he highlighted what he called the"unprecedented" results of Operation SpecTor on Tuesday.
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