Operation Trojan Shield | The FBI Seized 40 Tons of Drugs in Largest Ever Sting

Things I Learned Last Night

Space Tim Media

Comedy, Education, History

4.6 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Operation Trojan Shield was a joint effort by law enforcement agencies from multiple nations. It targeted organized crime networks using encrypted communication devices like Anon phones. These devices promised secrecy but unknowingly carried a backdoor, allowing authorities to monitor criminal activities in real time. Between 2018 and 2021, law enforcement gathered 27 million messages detailing crimes such as drug trafficking, money laundering, and even murder plots. The scale of this operation was unprecedented, leading to the arrest of over 800 individuals worldwide. Things I Learned Last Night is an educational comedy podcast where best friends Jaron Myers and Tim Stone talk about random topics and have fun all along the way. If you like learning, and laughing a whole lot while you do, then you’ll love TILLN. Watch or listen to this episode today! Become a Patron and Get Early Access to Ad-Free Episodes: https://tilln.com/support Episode link: https://tilln.com/trojanshield Support TILLN & Join The Mailing List: https://linktr.ee/tillnpodcast Watch Eels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRPlUIIzGXc&t=1498s&ab_channel=ThingsILearnedLastNight Text TILLN to 66866 to become a patron and gain access to ad-free episodes, the exclusive discord, and earn discounts on TILLN Merch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:06.9	So eight governments come together and on one day in 2021 arrests hundreds of people and most of them are going to get away free. Yeah, it was the largest sting operation ever commenced
1:10.8	involving eight different governments, 800 arrests, and over 40 tons of drugs were seized on that
1:16.9	day. But because of legal loopholes, it might not count. So the way that they found the information
1:23.4	is going to make it so that they might not be admissible in court.
1:30.6	And so we're going to talk about how they found that information,
1:34.8	the strategies they used, the loopholes that the FBI went through to try to get that information and then what ended up happening,
1:37.1	so they may not even be able to follow through on these cases.
1:39.6	This is things I learned last night.
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