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Blanche announces hundreds of arrests in dark web trafficking crackdown

Right Side Broadcasting Network's full news conference details Operation Tornado, including how drugs sold online traveled through postal networks.

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FULL EVENT: AG Blanche Announces Historic Operation Targeting Weapons & Drug Trade - 11/12/26

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0:01Blanche announces Operation Tornado's conclusion, reporting hundreds of arrests worldwide in a dark web opioid-trafficking crackdown.
4:46Raia details the FBI's reported seizures of drugs, firearms, cash and cryptocurrency.
10:48Cole emphasizes interagency partnerships in targeting cartel operations using dark web platforms.
15:02Barksdale explains how traffickers shipped drugs through postal networks and how postal inspectors intercepted illicit shipments.
18:22Reporters' questions begin, initially covering international arrest figures and state-level clemency.
23:25Raia identifies specialized tools, online undercover operations and advanced technology as methods used to track dark web sellers.

Right Side Broadcasting Network has posted the Justice Department's account of Operation Tornado, an international crackdown that officials say reached beyond dark web marketplaces to the packages carrying drugs around the world.

Attorney General Todd Blanche announces more than 350 arrests worldwide, alongside seizures of drugs, weapons and illicit proceeds. He says the operation targeted opioid and fentanyl trafficking through the Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement team, known as J-CODE.

The full conference drew about 65,000 views in its first six hours, already well beyond the channel's usual first-day audience for regular videos. A separate upload of FBI official Christopher G. Raia's remarks also attracted an unusually large audience.

Raia describes seizures of tons of drugs, firearms, cash and cryptocurrency. DEA Administrator Terry Cole emphasizes cooperation between agencies in pursuing cartel operations using dark web platforms.

Chief Postal Inspector Gary Barksdale explains the physical delivery system behind those online transactions: sellers shipped narcotics through postal networks, making interception of the mail part of the investigation.

The prepared announcement gives way to reporters' questions, with subjects ranging from fentanyl precursor chemicals to export enforcement and elections. For viewers interested specifically in how investigators pursue dark web sellers, Raia's answer comes later in the conference: he points to specialized investigative tools, online undercover operations and advanced technology.

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