Dark web crypto-drug traffickers 'can try to hide in the furthest reaches of the internet, but the Justice Department will find you'

Merrick Garland making a speech about dark web criminals

Dark web crypto criminals beware. The US Justice Department has issued a warning after arresting 288 dark web ne'er-do-wells over suspected opioid sales on the notorious drug trafficking site, Monopoly Market, which has since been taken down. 

This recent dark web purge, code name SpecTor, targeted the "largest, most violent, and most prolific fentanyl trafficking operation in the world: the Sinaloa Cartel." That's according to a powerful speech from US Attorney General Merrick Garland, in which he speaks directly to criminals trying to bypass the law by operating on the dark web (via The Register).