{"id":1923149,"date":"2023-05-03T01:28:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T05:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-makes-more-than-200-arrests-in-international-dark-web-drug-trafficking-scheme\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T01:33:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T05:33:57","slug":"doj-makes-more-than-200-arrests-in-international-dark-web-drug-trafficking-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-makes-more-than-200-arrests-in-international-dark-web-drug-trafficking-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ arrests 200+ in global dark web drug scheme."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdoj-makes-more-than-200-arrests-in-international-dark-web-drug-trafficking-scheme%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1923149&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>DOJ Makes Record Arrests and Seizures in Dark Web Drug Trafficking Scheme<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p>The Department of Justice has made a record number of arrests and seizures for a coordinated international scheme that targeted drug trafficking on the dark web, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ&#8217;s Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement team made 288 arrests in its Operation SpecTor, which cracked down on the trafficking of fentanyl and other opioids. The operation also saw the seizure of 117 firearms, 850 kilograms of drugs, and $53.4 million in cash and virtual currencies.<\/p>\n<p><b>Democratic Senator to Release $1 Billion Budget Proposal to Tackle Fentanyl Crisis<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Justice Department is cracking down on criminal cryptocurrency transactions and the online criminal marketplaces that enable them,\u201d Garland said in remarks. &#8220;This represents the most funds seized and the highest number of arrests in any coordinated international action led by the Justice Department against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/more-than-100-immigrants-deported-to-guatemala\/\" title=\"More than 100 immigrants deported to Guatemala\">drug traffickers<\/a> on the dark web.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The operation was an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/momentum-grows-in-congress-to-boycott-beijing-olympics\/\" title=\"Momentum Grows in Congress to Boycott Beijing Olympics\">international effort<\/a> that spanned across the United States, South America, and Europe. It also stretched into eight countries. Of the 288 arrests, 153 occurred in the U.S., the department said. The U.S. also seized 104 of the illegal guns and over 200,000 pills, including those containing fentanyl.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. leg of the operation, which was led by the FBI, included joint work with the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, and more than 30 U.S. attorneys&#8217; offices.<\/p>\n<p>Garland said that drug traffickers use the dark web to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-block-bill-to-sanction-trillion-dollar-trade-between-china-and-the-taliban\/\" title=\"Democrats Block Bill To Sanction Trillion-Dollar Trade Between China and the Taliban\">sell illegal drugs<\/a> in exchange for cryptocurrency because they believe they can &#8220;operate outside the bounds of the law.&#8221; The drugs could be advertised as brand-name pharmaceuticals, but the pills would be laced with fentanyl.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur message to criminals on the dark web is this: You can try to hide in the furthest reaches of the internet, but the Justice Department will find you and hold you accountable for your crimes,\u201d Garland said.<\/p>\n<p>Members of Congress have recently increased their efforts to stem the illegal flow of fentanyl across the U.S.-Mexico border. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) released a proposal on Tuesday called &#8220;The Fight Against Fentanyl.&#8221; The proposal includes a number of new operations and expanding existing assets through increasing the Department of Homeland Security fiscal 2024 budget.<\/p>\n<p>One goal is to increase the rate at which passenger vehicles are scanned while coming through the border. The intended increase would go from 40% of vehicles currently scanned to 65% by hiring 500 more Customs and Border Protection personnel, according to the proposal.<\/p>\n<h3>Key Takeaways:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The DOJ made a record number of arrests and seizures in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-makes-more-than-200-arrests-in-international-dark-web-drug-trafficking-scheme\/\" title=\"DOJ arrests 200+ in global dark web drug scheme.\">coordinated international scheme targeting drug trafficking<\/a> on the dark web.<\/li>\n<li>Operation SpecTor resulted in 288 arrests, the seizure of 117 firearms, 850 kilograms of drugs, and $53.4 million in cash and virtual currencies.<\/li>\n<li>Sen. Chris Murphy released a proposal called &#8220;The Fight Against Fentanyl&#8221; to increase efforts to stem the illegal flow of fentanyl across the U.S.-Mexico border.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Justice has made a record number of arrests and seizures for a coordinated international scheme that targeted drug trafficking on the dark web, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Tuesday. The DOJ&#8217;s Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement team made 288 arrests in its Operation SpecTor, which cracked down on the trafficking of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1923150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[11506,4283,5130,7076,5642,5179,8020],"class_list":["post-1923149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-11506","tag-arrests","tag-dark","tag-doj","tag-drug","tag-global","tag-scheme"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1923150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}