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December 20, 2013 10:40 pm GMT
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FBI Confirms First Silk Road 2.0 Arrest in U.S.
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...
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