FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests owner

According to the complaint, Silk Road was a massive business, doing in total $1.2 billion in sales and leading to $80 million in commissions. Ulbricht has been hit with conspiracy charges related to possession with intent to distribute drugs, hacking and money laundering.

These are the official papers with the full list of his charges, I read in there something along the lines of soliciting murder of another user? :S Anyway its a long list..

http://gawker.com/feds-seize-underground-drug-market-silk-road-and-arrest-1440187908
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24373759

The FBI has said it has arrested the suspected operator of the Silk Road - a website notorious for being a place to buy drugs and other illegal items.
A spokeswoman said that Ross William Ulbricht was arrested "without incident" by its agents at a public library in San Francisco on Tuesday.
She added he had been charged with conspiracy to traffic narcotics.
The FBI has also seized approximately $3.6m (£2,2m) worth of bitcoins - a virtual currency.
 
Forums getting that 'error' now, think thats about to go down too in a mo :(
 
yoyo50 said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24373759

The FBI has said it has arrested the suspected operator of the Silk Road - a website notorious for being a place to buy drugs and other illegal items.
A spokeswoman said that Ross William Ulbricht was arrested "without incident" by its agents at a public library in San Francisco on Tuesday.
She added he had been charged with conspiracy to traffic narcotics.
The FBI has also seized approximately $3.6m (£2,2m) worth of bitcoins - a virtual currency.
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they wont be worth 2.2 million for long. The value is gonna plummet, who the fuck would cash in bit coins worth 2.2 million for the FBI anyway. (i dont mean that to sound angry at you, its angry at the situation)

Gonna switch on bbc live news channel, see if the story is being covered on there as a major breaking news event, or not.

EDIT: its not being covered as a major breaking news event. Obviously not that much of a major event for the world at large.,
 
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k. After redandwhite asked DPR what sort of problem
was causing him, DPR responded, in a message
dated March 30, 2013: is threatening to expose the
identities of thousands of my clients that he was able to
acquire . . . . [T]his kind of behavior is unforgivable to me.
Especially here on Silk Road, anonymity is sacrosanct." As to
the murder--for--hire job he was soliciting, DPR commented that
doesn't have to be clean."

1. Later that same day, redandwhite sent DPR a
message quoting him a price of $150,000 to $300,000 "depending
on how you want it done" "clean" or "nonwclean."

m. On March 31, 2013, DPR responded: "Don't want to

be a pain here, but the price seems high. Not long ago, I had a
clean hit done for $80k. Are the prices you quoted the best you
can do? I would like this done asap as he is talking about
releasing the info on Monday."

8)
 
Says in his court papers all the crimes were committed in southern New York, also says that DPR Personally put out a hit on another SR user who was planning to release information about other users (potentially him?)

Edit _ Ninjad.

Very strange
 
^Thats probably what got him caught, if this is true I have no sympathy. Also hope vendor and user data is safe.
Meant as a reply to 25336, then merge out of nowhere lol
 
Court papers file July 23rd 2012 the Servers were compromised.. everything since then has been gathered....
 
150-300k for a hit?! Fuck's sake, that's a hustle.

I like how that bullshit seizure pic looks about as legit as BL's did lol.

StoneHappyMonday said:
Wasn't it the US Navy that invented it? And rejected it? Maybe there was a clue there...
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Fuck their rejection; if the government invented it, it's flawed. Bottom of the barrel employees...
 
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