Silk Road, online black market raided by FBI

[HarryCallahan]

Listen...p-time's heart is in the right place...please think of the children and all that.

But what people like him don't realize is that you absolutely cannot legislate morality. That stuff starts at home - you bring your kids up the best you can and you hope they make the best choice for themselves.

People who want to do drugs will find ways to get drugs. Kids who are curious about drugs will do drugs. What is the point of putting folks through the legal system for a personal choice they have made to place a substance inside of their body? Whether it's coke, pot, lsd, or clorox bleach is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.

If you want to curb overall drug use (especially harder drugs), your only route is EDUCATION -- not LEGISLATION.

Ask yourself who is profiting from this black market drug trade. Would you not rather your state receive this inevitable source of income and have users get their drugs in a safer environment?

I believe all drugs should be legal to ingest -- not because I want to go on a bender with some hookers but because attempting to ban their use is a ridiculously futile exercise at best.

Good post, but no- I don't want the state to get that money. They're like homeless people, you give them money and they're just going to start a war with it.

[Take Your Lumps]

Good post, but no- I don't want the state to get that money. They're like homeless people, you give them money and they're just going to start a war with it.

You do what Colorado did. You earmark the first $40 million in revenue every year for the public school capital construction assistance fund.

I know trust in government is at an all time low but unlike faceless corporations -- at the end of the day, states are people.

[HarryCallahan]

You do what Colorado did. You earmark the first $40 million in revenue every year for the public school capital construction assistance fund.

I know trust in government is at an all time low but unlike faceless corporations -- at the end of the day, states are people.

[BRabbiT]

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[BRabbiT]

New court records show that Silk Road was finally shut down after the sites top dealer began secretly cooperating with FBI agents.

Steven Sadler, who operated under the username 'Nod' was ranked in the 'top 1% of sellers' on Silk Road and provided his customers with wholesale shipments of drugs - sent through the US Postal Service.

Sadler, who is a drug addict, agreed to work with federal investigators when his Bellevue, Seattle home was raided on July 31st by Homeland Security who seized heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine, a .45 caliber pistol, cash, and 'vacuum and heat-sealing equipment'.

While the details of Sadler's cooperation were not clear, it is thought that he would have provided federal agents customer lists, or financial records and possibly confirmed the identity of Ulbricht - as part of their case against him.

Ulbricht appeared in court in San Francisco in early October, where he denied all charges against him, after the nearly two-year-long investigation, which was finally cracked with the help of Sadler.

While the details of Sadler's cooperation were not clear, it is thought that he would have provided federal agents customer lists, or financial records and possibly confirmed the identity of Ulbricht - as part of their case against him.

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Federal agents arrested Sadler after he was tracked for one year after investigators honed in on him and a female friend, Jenna M. White.

A complaint filed in federal court in Seattle says investigators identified Sadler and White after asking postal clerks in SeaTac to be on the lookout for a woman identified in surveillance video as being associated with certain suspect packages.

One clerk managed to get the license plate of her car, which authorities said they traced to Sadler and White's condominium in Bellevue.

Sadler and White allegedly used up to 40 different post offices to distribute their narcotics across the country.

Despite apparently aiding authorities, Steven Lloyd Sadler of Bellevue and Jenna M. White of Renton have both been released from custody pending court appearances later this month.

The raid on Wednesday was not the first time the U.S. government has made arrests related to Silk Road.

Earlier this year, authorities in South Carolina arrested Eric Daniel Hughes, known on Silk Road as 'Casey Jones', and charged him in state court with drug possession. The Drug Enforcement Agency seized units of bitcoin, which Hughes allegedly used to purchase drugs from the online market.
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[LJJ]

The Silk Road is back in business boys! Time to score some big shipments while you still can.

(Totally not operated by the CIA, promise)

[BRabbiT]

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.....Etay Maor, a fraud prevention manager with security firm Trusteer, and an expert on the dark net, said it was anyone's guess how long it would last.

"It could be 24 hours or it could be a year."

But with the Silk Road banking over $1.3bn (