3 Alleged Silk Road Moderators Arrested in Global Sting

UPDATE: Dec. 20, 1:00 p.m. ET

The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York confirmed the arrest of three alleged moderators of the online black market Silk Road. A representative told Mashable Friday that law enforcement agencies have apprehended Andrew Michael Jones in Virginia, Gary Davis in Ireland and Peter Phillip Nash in Australia

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara filed an indictment Thursday charging the three men with narcotics trafficking, computer hacking and money laundering. The indictment names the three suspects by their actual names and their supposed Silk Road aliases — Jones is thought to have been "Inigo," Davis is thought to have been "Libertas" and Nash is thought to have multiple online aliases, including "Samesamebutdifferent," "Batman 73," Symmetry" and "Anonymousasshit." Read more...