The Hunt for the Dark Web’s Biggest Kingpin, Part 6: Endgame
The direct ripple effects of that explosion of incriminating data, passed through so many institutions' records, aren't easy to track. But over the following…
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The Hunt for the Dark Web’s Biggest Kingpin, Part 5: Takedown
Rabenn remembers the atmosphere of that war room as more dead silence and sweaty, anxious tension than eagerness or anticipation. He knew the possibility of…
The Hunt for the Dark Web’s Biggest Kingpin, Part 4: Face to Face
The FBI agent, thinking quickly, avoided eye contact with Cazes and walked directly past him to the door. In the seconds it took for Cazes to cross the room,…
The Hunt for the Dark Web’s Biggest Kingpin, Part 3: Alpha Male
CHAPTER 6RAWMEOBy March 2017, the always aggressive Fresno prosecutor Grant Rabenn was ready to charge Alexandre Cazes with running AlphaBay. But his more…
The Hunt for the Dark Web’s Biggest Kingpin, Part 2: Pimp_alex_91
That legal request took weeks to bear fruit. Finally, one evening in the early weeks of January 2017, Ali was in the middle of a law school night class when…
The Hunt for the Dark Web’s Biggest Kingpin, Part 1: The Shadow
Shortly before AlphaBay took over the dark web's top spot, Alpha02 had changed his username on the site to merely “admin” and announced that he would no…