Your Web News in One Place

Help Webnuz

Referal links:

Sign up for GreenGeeks web hosting
December 20, 2013 10:40 pm GMT

FBI Confirms First Silk Road 2.0 Arrest in U.S.

Silkroad_jail

The FBI confirmed on Friday it has made a new arrest related to the recently relaunched online drug marketplace Silk Road, known as Silk Road 2.0. The development comes after a night of intense speculation among the site's community that two of its moderators were apprehended and that law enforcement possibly has deep access to the site.

A spokesperson for the FBI office in Richmond, Va., told Mashable that agents had executed a search warrant Andrew Michael Jones, who is thought to be a Silk Road moderator with the alias "Inigo." Separately, a spokesperson for the New York FBI office told Mashable that the agency made an arrest related to Silk Road, but would not to provide a name Read more...

More about Crime, Fbi, Drugs, Silk Road, and Us World

Original Link: http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/Mashable/~3/wnfwXQOhCAs/

Share this article:    Share on Facebook
View Full Article

Mashable

Mashable is the top source for news in social and digital media, technology and web culture.

More About this Source Visit Mashable