NEW FBI Taskforce, Code Named J-CODE, Targets Online Opioid Trade

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Jeff Sessions doubles the number of agents assigned to a new federal task force, codenamed J-CODE, to combat online opioid trafficking. The task force will target online opioid trafficking, specifically naming Fentanyl. The initiative also will be going after Dr's running" pill mill" operations as well as other crimes related to the opioid epidemic, specifically naming Pittsburgh/West Virginia/Appalachia area.

In the press release I listened to, Sessions mentioned that all darknet market activity has been made a "Top Priority" in his department as of late...


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[13 Points] doublenancy:

this fentanyl shit is damaging dnms why do these faggots still produce/sell even though the great risk. the price of fent doesnt worth this bullshit


[3 Points] GeneralStarkk:

This is the time i've seen discussed many times in many different threads, in many different forums, those of us paying attention knew something like this was coming.

The Chinese have fucked us yet again, however indirectly. This will certainly change things...people are dying, and its not just junkies that unfortunatly have little contact with people who may love them, but the nature of being a junkie dictates most of them isolate, which means they can go to the otherside unnoticed by most of us... a sad, cold fact that we have to live with.

This thing is effecting the big players, which play big games. People that play different counties on eachother as if they were playing chess, these types of people are seeing family members die because of pharma pressed fent bullshit. I don't know exactly what this means for us, but I know it means for me that I'm going to relax for a bit, and see how things shift. I love my dope but this is serious, and i'd put up a pretty good arguement that it will have the same effect as it would be Dream let products be sold which involve the kiddy diddlers. Weather that should or shouldn't happen does not matter.

This is the wrath of the US goverment we are talking about here, and they prove to need little justification, and something tells me they don't have meetings about the morality of what there doing..


[1 Points] CookyDough:

Jeff Sessions says Pittsburgh's 'Darknet' expertise to be employed in opioid battle

Torsten Ove Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Jan 29, 2018 9:36 PM

A new team of federal drug agents, computer experts and analysts will combat worldwide online opioid trafficking, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced in Pittsburgh Monday.

Speaking at the federal courthouse on Grant Street as part of his nationwide tour of U.S. attorney's offices, Mr. Sessions said the Joint Criminal Opioid Darknet Enforcement team will act as a resource bringing together agents from various agencies to target fentanyl and other drugs being sold on encrypted dark web sites around the globe.

"A lot of criminals think that they’re safe online because they’re anonymous," Mr. Sessions said in addressing a roomful of local police and federal prosecutors. "They’re in for a rude awakening."

The team will be coordinated through the FBI and build on work already done here in recent years by agents and prosecutors pursuing cybercriminals and fentanyl dealing online.

Mr. Sessions said the local team has been among the leaders in combating darknet operations.

"This office has an impressive darknet fentanyl working group," Mr. Sessions said. "You work with the FBI, DEA, Homeland Security investigators, the county crime lab, the state attorney general, and the postal inspectors to stop fentanyl from reaching this community. And you do amazing work. This cooperative effort is essential."

Mr. Sessions said J-CODE will double the number of FBI agents and analysts working cases of online synthetic opioids being sold on the darknet, which is essentially a marketplace for criminals.

He said in earlier times addicts had to buy drugs on the street, but increasingly users can get them online from overseas suppliers.

"With a few clicks of a button, you can go online and have them shipped right to your door," Mr. Sessions said.

He said online trafficking is contributing to the worst drug crisis in the nation's history.

"I believe that this new resource will fulfill a need that so far has not been met," he said, "and I am convinced that this new investment will pay dividends for the people of Pennsylvania."

Mr. Sessions said law enforcement has already made strides against online dealers.

In July, he announced the seizure of the largest darknet marketplace in history, called Alpha Bay. The site was a one-stop shop on the Tor network with 220,000 drug listings. Mr. Sessions said it was responsible for "countless" overdoses, including that of a 13-year-old boy and an 18-year-old girl.

The J-CODE team follows another new initiative that Mr. Sessions ordered in August called the Opioid Fraud and Abuse Detection Unit, which focuses on opioid-related health care fraud. He also assigned a dozen prosecutors in each of 12 "hot spot" districts where opioid abuse is rampant to focus on opioid prescription prosecutions. Pittsburgh is one of those districts, with Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Cessar assigned to prosecutions here.

The first case in the nation since the creation of the unit was that of a local doctor, Andrzej Zielke, 62, of Hampton, who had operated Medical Frontiers in the Richland Mall. He is under indictment here on charges of running a pill mill. Federal agents, who had been investigating Zielke since 2014, said he was doling out prescriptions to addicts for cash, including at least one who died of an overdose.

The DEA estimates that eight of 10 heroin addicts in the U.S. started out as prescription painkiller abusers. Mr. Sessions said that too many doctors are prescribing too many pain pills. He also said that too many patients are asking for narcotic painkillers and urged a tough-it-out approach.

"Sometimes you just have to suffer a bit," he said.

Mr. Sessions has taken several other steps recently to bolster the fight against drug-dealing as well as an uptick in violence in some communities in this region.

Most recently, he announced the creation of a new FBI task force in Pittsburgh funded with $100,000 a year to target violent crime, particularly drug-related armed robberies, in Allegheny and Beaver Counties. The money, allocated as part of the Justice Department's long-running Project Safe Neighborhoods, will be used to add local police to an FBI squad working out of the Pittsburgh field office, which has jurisdiction over Western Pennsylvania and all of West Virginia.

Mr. Sessions also recently revamped the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, creating a new DEA division in Kentucky to combat opioid trafficking in Appalachia, where overdoses are the highest in the United States.

That region includes West Virginia. The plan also called for the appointment of opioid coordinators for all federal districts and $12 million in funding for state and local police.

First Published January 29, 2018, 9:36pm

"and other drugs" ... Not cool. :(


[-3 Points] BugHumper:

Ya fent is bad but think that's ruining the dnm Blahaha. Don't think it's just that they're genius probably stolen credit cards scumbags people selling socials and government info Etc. Maybe you should start a darknet market you can Dan all drugs fraud Exedra you can be like the darknet market for kids