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Silk Road Suspect to Face Charges in New York
#18954780 - 10/09/13 02:50 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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http://news.msn.com/crime-justice/silk-road-suspect-to-face-charges-in-nyc
Federal authorities in New York have charged Ross Ulbricht with three felonies related to the operation of the secret drug website Silk Road.
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a California man charged with operating a notorious online drug marketplace known as Silk Road to be sent to New York to face charges. The order by U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph Spero came during a brief court hearing in San Francisco for Ross Ulbricht. Federal authorities in New York have charged Ulbricht with three felonies related to the operation of the website. Ulbricht's attorney, public defender Brandon LeBlanc, has denied the charges.
Silk Road gained widespread notoriety two years ago as a black market bazaar where visitors could buy and sell drugs using bitcoins, a form of online cash. A so-called hidden site, Silk Road used an online tool known as Tor to mask the location of its servers.
Ulbricht agreed to remain in custody. Authorities have said Ulbricht operated the website under various aliases, including "Dread Pirate Roberts." His attorney denied he used any aliases.
While many other sites sell drugs more or less openly, Silk Road's technical sophistication, its user-friendly escrow system and its promise of near-total anonymity quickly made it among the best known. The FBI shut down the site when they arrested Ulbricht on Oct. 1 at a small branch library in San Francisco as he chatted online with a "cooperating witness," according to authorities and court papers.
He is also charged in Baltimore federal court with soliciting the murder of a former worker who was arrested on drug charges. The indictment alleges Ulbricht feared the former worker would turn on him. The FBI said Ulbricht unwittingly hired an undercover agent for the murder, which the FBI staged but never took place.
Prosecutors in New York have charged Ulbricht — a native Texan who was living in San Francisco and holds degrees from the University of Texas and Penn State — with trying unsuccessfully to solicit the murder of a Canadian man who allegedly hacked into Silk Road, obtained dealers names and began blackmailing Ulbricht. FBI agents appear to have penetrated the behind-the-scenes operations of Silk Road and obtained a list of the sites users and sellers, court papers show.
In the following days, authorities in Britain, Sweden, and the United States arrested eight people who are charged with using the site to sell drugs. In Washington state, a man and a woman were arrested on charges of selling cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine through the now-shuttered website.
In the U.K., the country's newly established National Crime Agency indicated more arrests were on the way. "These latest arrests are just the start; there are many more to come," said Keith Bristow, head of the agency. In court papers, the FBI said it had managed to copy the contents of the site's server — something one expert said would likely provide international authorities with detailed information about the site's dealers.
Silk Road's eBay-style customer review system means that months' worth of sales history are now in law enforcement hands, according to a computer expert who studies bitcoins. "Any large sellers on Silk Road should be very nervous," said Nicholas Weaver, a researcher with the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley and the University of California, San Diego.
The traceable nature of bitcoin transfers means the FBI "can now easily follow the money," Weaver said in an email.
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Re: Silk Road Suspect to Face Charges in New York [Re: Nature Boy]
#18954785 - 10/09/13 02:51 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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wow another SR post
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Nature Boy
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Re: Silk Road Suspect to Face Charges in New York [Re: B_BOY]
#18954824 - 10/09/13 03:00 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yeah, it's still inthe news...
This is of interest to me since I live about 60 miles away from NYC. I could stop in at the Courthouse to check out the proceedings... except I bet the Feds will be surveilling the gallery.
I never did any biz with SR and don't even understand the Bitcoin bullshit necessary to do biz with them, but still, I'd stay away just because...although it is tempting for some inexplicable reason. Kinda like watching a bad car accident. Hard to look away.
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Re: Silk Road Suspect to Face Charges in New York [Re: Nature Boy]
#18954886 - 10/09/13 03:15 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Dude, you should go and give us the real story.
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Re: Silk Road Suspect to Face Charges in New York [Re: Nature Boy]
#18954889 - 10/09/13 03:15 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I find this one interesting because it mentions two more arrests that haven't been posted here on the Shroomery. Gonna try to dig up those now.
EDIT: Found this about the Swedish arrests.
"In Sweden, two men from the coastal city of Helsingborg were arrested on suspicion of distributing cannabis over Silk Road, the local Helsingborgs Dagblad reported Tuesday. The newspaper did not say when the pair had been detained."
Edited by D.M.T (10/09/13 03:20 PM)
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Re: Silk Road Suspect to Face Charges in New York [Re: D.M.T]
#18954903 - 10/09/13 03:18 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: Silk Road Suspect to Face Charges in New York [Re: trampis] 1
#18954912 - 10/09/13 03:22 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
trampis said: Dude, you should go and give us the real story.
Maybe I will go! I have no real reason to fear.
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Re: Silk Road Suspect to Face Charges in New York [Re: Nature Boy]
#18954926 - 10/09/13 03:26 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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It would be awesome if you could give us the details
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Re: Silk Road Suspect to Face Charges in New York [Re: el_barto]
#18954955 - 10/09/13 03:34 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I agree. With all the bullshit the mainstream media prints, it is nice when an objective report is made available.
The hearing may not even amount to much other than him being charged and entering his not guilty plea and setting his court date. I would expect them to set an extraordinarily high bail for him, but even if he could post bail he still has to face the charge in Baltimore on the murder for hire. Someone more familiar with this sort of thing could speculate better than me though.
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Re: Silk Road Suspect to Face Charges in New York [Re: trampis]
#18955107 - 10/09/13 04:12 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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He is also charged in Baltimore federal court with soliciting the murder of a former worker who was arrested on drug charges. The indictment alleges Ulbricht feared the former worker would turn on him. The FBI said Ulbricht unwittingly hired an undercover agent for the murder, which the FBI staged but never took place.
Prosecutors in New York have charged Ulbricht — a native Texan who was living in San Francisco and holds degrees from the University of Texas and Penn State — with trying unsuccessfully to solicit the murder of a Canadian man who allegedly hacked into Silk Road, obtained dealers names and began blackmailing Ulbricht. FBI agents appear to have penetrated the behind-the-scenes operations of Silk Road and obtained a list of the sites users and sellers, court papers show.
He's FUCKED
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Re: Silk Road Suspect to Face Charges in New York [Re: LiquidGlass]
#18955459 - 10/09/13 05:19 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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shouldnt the fbi be charge with conspiracy to murder?..
sources say they pretty much initiated it from the start. probably arrested the canadian dude and made him blackmail ulbricht to the point were they could get him to hire a hitman(which was really the fbi..)
coincidence?, i think not..
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Re: Silk Road Suspect to Face Charges in New York [Re: zZZz]
#18955565 - 10/09/13 05:43 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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And in other news, Webster announced today it is removing the word 'entrapment' from the next edition of its' dictionary, stating the the word no longer exists and/or has no meaning.
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