THELOGICALINDIAN - On January 20 federal agents arrested a Seattle man for automat and alive as an ambassador on the Silk Road 20darknet market
Prosecutors accept answerable 26-year-old Brian Richard Farrell, who they say is DoctorClu, a acclaimed Silk Road ambassador that larboard the exchange afterwards a blast with his coworkers and boss. He is currently answerable with cabal to administer heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine and will arise Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Seattle.
“The arrest of Mr. Farrell is affidavit that federal law administration continues its efforts to basis out those who capsize the Internet to set up atramentous markets for actionable goods,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes in a statement.
Silk Road 2.0 started weeks afterwards the aboriginal exchange was shut down. The actuality active the exchange was Blake Benthall, a 26 year old man who was a tech administrator and antecedent agent for Elon Musk’s amplitude startup, SpaceX. According to assemblage at his cloister case, anon afterwards actuality arrested by federal police, he accepted that he had committed the declared crimes. The aftermost that was heard of him, according to abysmal web account site, DeepDotWeb, was that he was appear from federal bastille into the aegis of an bearding federal agency.
Deep web journalist, who goes by the username Gwern, wrote on Reddit, “That… absolutely makes some sense. Farrell’s acquaintance describes him as bustling affliction killers all the time which is what he was bankrupt for, and DoctorClu talked about application affliction killers too. (Also, both articulate like aloof a**holes.)
“This is absolutely bad account for Tang and the added actual SR2 employees. Farrell was nobody; but DoctorClu should’ve been safe abnormally afterwards he was accursed for annexation bell-ringer bonds.”
According to the bent complaint, U.S. authorities accomplished a chase accreditation on Farrell’s abode in Bellevue, Washington, and interviewed him. After actuality told they accept affiliated the IP abode of his abode to Silk Road 2.0, Farrell accepted to actuality Defcon’s — the arch of Silk Road 2.0 — righthand man and spokesman.
The case is U.S. v. Farrell, U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington, No. 15-mj-00016. (Reporting by Nate Raymond in New York; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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