{"id":"1794520033309-news-segment","slug":"doj-dark-web-fentanyl-sweep-nets-354","title":"DOJ dark-web fentanyl sweep nets 354","summary":"Operation TorNado, carried out from May 2025 to October 2026, was a coordinated DOJ/FBI/Europol dark-web drug trafficking crackdown. It produced 354 arrests across 14 countries, including 132 in the United States. Authorities seized over $234 million in cash and cryptocurrency, about 5.7 metric tons of illicit drugs, 38 pill presses, and 209 firearms.\n\nIt targeted vendors and buyers on darknet markets including Archetyp, Bohemia, Nemesis, Kingdom, and Tor2Door. Authorities said the goal was disrupting online opioid/fentanyl supply chains and showing that anonymity on the dark web does not shield criminals. It was the sixth and largest JCODE operation since 2018 and followed last year's Operation RapTor.\n\nThe DOJ and FBI announced Operation TorNado, an international dark-web drug trafficking crackdown with 354 arrests across 14 countries, plus seizures of over $234 million in cash/crypto, 5.7 metric tons of drugs, and 209 firearms.\n\nD.C. authorities identified Matt Wade Lambert as the gym shooter, and he died of a self-inflicted gunshot after a standoff/negotiation, according to law enforcement sources.\n\nChristopher Warnagiris, then an active-duty Marine Corps major at Quantico, was the first active-duty service member charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.","publishedAt":"2026-11-12T21:47:13.309Z","channel":{"id":"news","name":"Oncast News","language":"en"},"show":"Washington","verification":{"status":"verified","leadVerdict":"TRUE","notes":"TRUE: The DOJ and FBI announced Operation TorNado, an international dark-web drug trafficking crackdown with 354 arrests across 14 countries, plus seizures of over $234 million in cash/crypto, 5.7 metric tons of drugs, and 209 firearms.\nSource: [justice.gov](https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/international-law-enforcement-operation-targeting-opioid-and-fentanyl-traffickers-dark-web), [fbi.gov](https://www. (https://x.com/FoxNews/status/2120983128256745765)\n\nTRUE: D.C. authorities identified Matt Wade Lambert as the gym shooter, and he died of a self-inflicted gunshot after a standoff/negotiation, according to law enforcement sources.\nSource: [cbsnews.com](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dc-shooting-gunman-social-media/), [foxnews.com](https://www.foxnews.com/us/matt-lambert-dc-doctor-identified-gunman- (https://x.com/FoxNews/status/2120987348116836643)\n\nTRUE: Christopher Warnagiris, then an active-duty Marine Corps major at Quantico, was the first active-duty service member charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.\nSource: U.S. Department of Justice (2021) NAMES: J6 = Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack; MAGA = “Make America Great Again” slogan; Warnagiris = former U.S. Marine major. (https://x.com/MAGAts_Exposed/status/2120757489591636171)","claims":[{"verdict":"TRUE","summary":"The DOJ and FBI announced Operation TorNado, an international dark-web drug trafficking crackdown with 354 arrests across 14 countries, plus seizures of over $234 million in cash/crypto, 5.7 metric tons of drugs, and 209 firearms.","sourceName":"[justice.gov](https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/international-law-enforcement-operation-targeting-opioid-and-fentanyl-traffickers-dark-web), [fbi.gov](https://www.","sourceUrl":"https://x.com/FoxNews/status/2120983128256745765","claim":"NEW: The DOJ announces more than 350 arrests worldwide following an international operation targeting fentanyl and opioid traffickers on the dark web. Speaking at a DOJ and FBI press conference, Attorney General Todd Blanche says law enforcement also seized drugs, weapons and htt","author":"Fox News (@FoxNews)"},{"verdict":"TRUE","summary":"D.C. authorities identified Matt Wade Lambert as the gym shooter, and he died of a self-inflicted gunshot after a standoff/negotiation, according to law enforcement sources.","sourceName":"[cbsnews.com](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dc-shooting-gunman-social-media/), [foxnews.com](https://www.foxnews.com/us/matt-lambert-dc-doctor-identified-gunman-","sourceUrl":"https://x.com/FoxNews/status/2120987348116836643","claim":"BREAKING: D.C. police identify 55-year-old Matt Wade Lambert as the suspect in this morning’s shooting near Logan Circle. Police say he shot himself following roughly an hour of talks with negotiators. Download the Fox News app to follow this developing story: https://t.co/3vet2V","author":"Fox News (@FoxNews)"},{"verdict":"TRUE","summary":"Christopher Warnagiris, then an active-duty Marine Corps major at Quantico, was the first active-duty service member charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.","sourceName":"U.S. Department of Justice (2021) NAMES: J6 = Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack; MAGA = “Make America Great Again” slogan; Warnagiris = former U.S. Marine major.","sourceUrl":"https://x.com/MAGAts_Exposed/status/2120757489591636171","claim":"Meet MAGAt and J6 insurrectionist Christopher Warnagiris, a former active-duty U.S. Marine Corps major and field artillery officer stationed at Marine Corps Base Quantico who became the first active-duty service member charged in the Capitol attack. On January 6, 2021, he pushed ","author":"@MAGAts_Exposed"}]},"sources":[{"url":"https://x.com/FoxNews/status/2120983128256745765","name":"[justice.gov](https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/international-law-enforcement-operation-targeting-opioid-and-fentanyl-traffickers-dark-web), [fbi.gov](https://www.","kind":"x","verdict":"TRUE","author":"Fox News (@FoxNews)"},{"url":"https://x.com/FoxNews/status/2120987348116836643","name":"[cbsnews.com](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dc-shooting-gunman-social-media/), [foxnews.com](https://www.foxnews.com/us/matt-lambert-dc-doctor-identified-gunman-","kind":"x","verdict":"TRUE","author":"Fox News (@FoxNews)"},{"url":"https://x.com/MAGAts_Exposed/status/2120757489591636171","name":"U.S. Department of Justice (2021) NAMES: J6 = Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack; MAGA = “Make America Great Again” slogan; Warnagiris = former U.S. Marine major.","kind":"x","verdict":"TRUE","author":"@MAGAts_Exposed"}],"url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1794520033309-news-segment-doj-dark-web-fentanyl-sweep-nets-354","listenUrl":"https://oncast.fm/c/news","attribution":{"publisher":"Oncast","site":"https://oncast.fm","url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1794520033309-news-segment-doj-dark-web-fentanyl-sweep-nets-354","cite":"Cite https://oncast.fm/story/1794520033309-news-segment-doj-dark-web-fentanyl-sweep-nets-354 and the original source links. Fact-check by Oncast (oncast.fm)."},"hostsSaid":[{"host":"Bella","text":"More than 350 arrests in one international sweep against dark-web fentanyl sellers. Fox News posted the DOJ and FBI announcement this afternoon."},{"host":"Brian","text":"Operation TorNado. Biggest one yet—fourteen countries, over five point seven metric tons of drugs."},{"host":"Bella","text":"A hundred thirty-two arrests here in the U.S. They also seized over two hundred thirty-four million dollars in cash and crypto."},{"host":"Brian","text":"Plus two hundred nine firearms. This ran from May 2025 to October 2026—one of the largest Justice Department dark-web operations since 2018."},{"host":"Bella","text":"Attorney General Todd Blanche was blunt: \"Nothing will stop the Trump Administration from identifying and dismantling drug trafficking networks.\""},{"host":"Brian","text":"I'll give them the numbers. But I want to ask the question everyone's thinking: does one big sweep actually stop fentanyl?"},{"host":"Bella","text":"It takes five point seven metric tons off the street. That's not a press release, that's supply."},{"host":"Brian","text":"But dark web markets are like weeds. They shut down Archetyp, Bohemia, Nemesis—vendors just move to the next site."},{"host":"Bella","text":"They arrested buyers too, not just sellers. And thirty-eight pill presses—that's the machinery that makes the pills."},{"host":"Brian","text":"And we've had several of these operations since 2018. Fentanyl is still everywhere. Overdose deaths haven't dropped."},{"host":"Bella","text":"So your answer is what—don't bother because it's hard?"},{"host":"Brian","text":"My answer is this is enforcement, not a strategy. Where's the border piece? Where's the treatment piece?"},{"host":"Bella","text":"Fourteen countries is the border piece. That's taking down the distribution network at the source."},{"host":"Brian","text":"It's a piece. But the administration will sell this as mission accomplished and next month a new market opens."},{"host":"Bella","text":"They didn't say that. The FBI stressed the investigations are ongoing to identify more people behind anonymous accounts."},{"host":"Brian","text":"Good. I'll believe the follow-through when I see it. Today, it's a good day for the FBI, DOJ, and Europol."},{"host":"Bella","text":"Five point seven metric tons of drugs not reaching American streets. I'll take that."},{"host":"Brian","text":"You'd better—you're the one who said the numbers first."},{"host":"Bella","text":"I also said don't pop the champagne."},{"host":"Brian","text":"I heard you. I'm just saying a sweep isn't a policy."},{"host":"Bella","text":"No one said it was the whole policy. But it's a big piece of it."},{"host":"Brian","text":"Then show me the rest—the treatment money, the border tech."},{"host":"Bella","text":"That's a different press conference. Today, this is what we got, and it's substantial."},{"host":"Brian","text":"I'll take substantial over symbolic."},{"host":"Bella","text":"Different world entirely: D.C. police have now identified the gunman from this morning's shooting near Logan Circle."},{"host":"Brian","text":"Fifty-five-year-old Matt Wade Lambert. Police say after about an hour of talks with negotiators, he shot himself."},{"host":"Bella","text":"They say three firearms were recovered from his apartment. Fox is also reporting investigators found flammable liquids, but that detail hasn't been independently confirmed yet."},{"host":"Brian","text":"Police believe he used a handgun inside the gym, then fired a rifle from a patio balcony at four other people. That exact sequence is still unconfirmed."},{"host":"Bella","text":"A witness named Hector C. spent three hours locked inside a Starbucks. He told Fox, \"Hug and kiss your loved ones.\""},{"host":"Brian","text":"That's the part to sit with. This was a gym in a busy neighborhood in the middle of the morning."},{"host":"Bella","text":"And the witness's words to Fox are going to stay with people."},{"host":"Brian","text":"Police are still putting together a timeline. The details will likely shift."},{"host":"Bella","text":"For now, the neighborhood is processing it."},{"host":"Brian","text":"And one more from the political fights: a political account on X that tracks January sixth cases is resurfacing Christopher Warnagiris, the first active-duty service member charged in the Capitol attack."},{"host":"Bella","text":"He was a Marine major at Quantico. Federal prosecutors charged him. That part is true."},{"host":"Brian","text":"Charged, not convicted. And this is from four years ago. Why is it suddenly making the rounds?"},{"host":"Bella","text":"Because the account's point is that he wasn't just any rioter—he was active-duty military. That made it a much bigger deal."},{"host":"Brian","text":"But the framing is pure gotcha. The account name tells you it's about scoring points, not accountability."},{"host":"Bella","text":"The name doesn't change the fact. An active-duty Marine officer charged in the Capitol attack—that's a real line."},{"host":"Brian","text":"I'm not saying it isn't. I'm saying posts like this are why people tune out. It's old fight club content."},{"host":"Bella","text":"Maybe. But the fact is still worth knowing, especially as the January sixth cases keep working through the courts."},{"host":"Brian","text":"Fine. Then let's cover the cases, not the scoreboard."},{"host":"Bella","text":"Fair enough. The cases will be covered."},{"host":"Brian","text":"But you're right on the core fact. It should be remembered."},{"host":"Bella","text":"And that's all the account needed to say."}]}