The Department of Justice said Tuesday it arrested nearly 300 people and seized unprecedented amounts of drugs and cash as part of a global takedown on fentanyl traffickers that focused on the darknet corners of the web.
Agents arrested 288 people and seized 117 firearms, 850 kilograms of drugs — including 64 kilograms of fentanyl or fentanyl-laced drugs — and $53.4 million in cash and virtual currencies.
“The drug traffickers are confident that by operating anonymously on the dark web, they can operate outside the bounds of the law,” he said. “They are wrong.” The U.S. government says nearly all of the fentanyl supply flows from Mexico, often in the form of counterfeit pills taken by addicted people or unsuspecting users. Families have told Congress that young people and others can access pills on the internet.
“Our message to criminals on the dark web is this: You can try to hide in the farthest reaches of the internet. But the Justice Department will find you and hold you accountable for your crimes,” Mr. Garland said. “We will continue to illuminate the dark web and we will bring to justice those who try to hide their crimes there.”“There is a bit of a whack-a-mole problem here, and we are whacking as hard as we can,” Mr. Garland said.
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