An FBI ‘Asset’ Helped Run a Dark Web Site That Sold Fentanyl-Laced Drugs for Years

A Manhattan court sentenced Lin Rui-Siang, the 25-year-old administrator of the Incognito dark web drug market, to 30 years in prison after the site facilitated over $100 million in narcotics sales, including fentanyl-laced pills linked to a death. During sentencing, Lin’s defense revealed that an FBI confidential human source allegedly helped run the marketplace for nearly two years—moderating vendors and at times approving potentially tainted products—arguing the government could have mitigated harm but did not.