Silk Road 2.0 hewed closely to the original Silk Road's business model, FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge George Venizelos said. "Those looking to follow in the footsteps of alleged cyber criminals should understand that we will return as many times as necessary to shut down noxious online criminal bazaars." "This Silk Road, in whatever form, is the road to prison," Manhattan U.S. To disguise its transactions, users would access the site through The Onion Router, or TOR, which bounces Internet interactions randomly through a system of computers around the world, concealing Internet Protocol (IP) addresses enabling users to hide their identities and locations. If convicted of the drug trafficking, he could be sentenced to life in prison.
He is charged with conspiring to commit narcotics trafficking, conspiring to commit computer hacking, conspiring to traffic in fraudulent identification documents and money laundering. 6, 2013, five weeks after federal agents seized the original Silk Road website and arrested its alleged operator, Ross Ulbricht, known by the online handle "Dread Pirate Roberts." Court documents allege Benthall took charge in December.īenthall, arrested Wednesday in San Francisco, was scheduled to appear in federal court Thursday afternoon before Magistrate Judge Jaqueline Scott Corley. Prosecutors charged Blake Benthall, 26, known by the online handle "Defcon," with operating and owning "Silk Road 2.0." The site launched Nov. Federal agents arrested a San Francisco man they say resurrected and operated the dark Web online drug bazaar "Silk Road" that generated $8 million in monthly sales and attracted 150,000 vendors and customers.
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