Chimpanzee using Instagram
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Dark net's biggest drug website Dream Market to close as rumours swirl about what comes next
When Manhattan's district attorney received a tip-off about suspicious ATM withdrawals in 2017, authorities never expected to unravel a sophisticated dark net drug operation on such an astonishing scale.
Key points
- The biggest dark net drug marketplace 'Dream Market' is about to go offline
- Authorities have made a string of large busts in relation to dark net drug sales
- No replacement has emerged fuelling rumours of a law enforcement takeover online
A painstaking two-year investigation involving multiple authorities uncovered a multi-million-dollar drug empire being run by three men out of a New Jersey property.
"Not only is this the first time state prosecutors in New York have taken down a dark web storefront, this takedown represents the largest pill seizure in New Jersey's history," Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance said in a statement.
Buckets containing more than half-a-million counterfeit Alprazolam — sold as Xanax — were seized along with large quantities of fentanyl-laced heroin, methamphetamine and other drugs once destined for online customers across the United States.