Are there accounts of LE taking Vendor accounts and busting buyers

are there any known accounts of LE busting a vendor, and continuing to use their account to bust people who try to buy right off the bat, With ShinyFlakes that wasn't needed since the asshole had the mentality to take everyone down if the ship started to sink, but what about other sites/vendors


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[6 Points] gwern:

Quite a few. Something like 59 CDs & arrests of buyers followed the Xanax King takeover, an Evo vendor went down in January after the FBI took over the other TCF/Evo vendor 'Dark_Mart' and waited for new orders, digitalink was used to bust at least 1 other SR1 seller, and so on. Read through http://www.gwern.net/Black-market%20arrests and you'll spot some more, probably.


[4 Points] Theeconomist1:

Someone might correct my memory, but I believe when XanaxKing was busted, LE assumed their vendor account and busted some of the bigger buyers.


[2 Points] Hank_Vendor:

this is about the only thing it is worth them doing.

before Budworx exit scammed/got arrested/moved to outer Mongolia all his meth listing shot up in weight. This was probably for his exit scam, bit I still think there a fair chance that old bill were running his account to get addresses of resellers. Obviously also then packages would be not arriving as they can't actually post the drugs.