still no large vendor / buyer busts?

Is it fair to assume at this stage the fbi / whoever else was lying about having our personal info as a scare tactic? you'd think we would have heard something by now but here we are..


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[3 Points] That_Guy_389:

Man they don't plan in days or week. LE can take months or years to investigate any act on said information. Now they could be BSing too, or they could be waiting to build a even bigger case.

Or maybe busts are going on right now and we don't know at it at all. They took down Hansa and Alphabay without anyone knowing....


[1 Points] timpytammytoo:

It takes months. Reading this article about the bust of the original Silk Road's biggest heroin dealer would be worth your time.

https://www.dailydot.com/crime/silk-road-heroin-arrest-nod/

Meanwhile, police kept looking for a more solid connection between Nod and Sadler. In March 2013, investigators ordered heroin and cocaine from Nod to the address of the busted customer in Alaska. Cops traced the package and saw it had been shipped from a post office in Kenmore, Wa.

The cops got a warrant to place GPS tracking devices on the Audi and BMW. Over the next several months, they watched Sadler and his girlfriend White drive the two cars to 38 different post offices around the greater Seattle area including, to no one’s surprise, the Kenmore post office.


[1 Points] LandedGypsie:

The bigggeet vendors are going to have the longest investigations ofcourse.


[1 Points] doctorsquidman:

Well they weren't lying about having the info, they seized Hansa for a month and had it under their control. Also people used the auto encrypt on AlphaBay which means their unencrypted personal information was sent to the server that was later seized. They are probably watching or watched Dream too, plus vendors store personal info sometimes. And they did bust EtiKing and other large vendors.


[1 Points] NoFreedomWoAnonymity:

Can't arrest them if they are all in belize.