Alleged Silk Road Operator ‘Roped Into’ U.S. Extradition

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) together with the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York have announced that they have arrested 'Defcon', the operator of illicit black market website Silk Road 2.0. At press time, the Silk Road 2.0 marketplace was no longer operational, with the website displaying a disclaimer that it had been taken down by Europol, Eurojust, the FBI, US Department of Justice and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Authorities arrested 26-year-old San Francisco native Blake Benthall yesterday in his home city. He will appear in federal court today....

Microsoft and the U.S. government are in an ongoing battle over an Irishman allegedly involved in Silk Road wanted by the FBI on darknet drug charges, as reported by Deep Dot Web. The 27-year-old Irishman, Gary Davis, from Wicklow, is currently fighting an extradition case led by the FBI so that he can avoid facing charges for his alleged involvement in Silk Road, the illegal online marketplace. Mr Davis is alleged to have been an administrator on the website using the name ‘Libertas’ when the FBI shut it down in 2013. Silk Road was an online marketplace that worked on the darknet offering....

The story of Silk Road is far from finished by the look of things. Gary Davis, also known as Libertas on the deep web marketplace, is fighting his extradition to the US. If he is successful in doing so, he will not be charged for his alleged involvement in Silk Road. The FBI strongly feels they have evidence linking his real identity to that of the Libertas administrator position on the platform. This whole debacle dates back to 2013 when the DOJ served Microsoft with a warrant. Apparently, law enforcement agencies wanted to investigate a particular Microsoft Outlook account. At that time,....

The Irish High Court has ordered the extradition to the United States of Gary Davis, a 27-year-old from Johnstown Court in Kilpedder, Co. Wicklow, who is alleged to have been an administrator of the Silk Road website that dealt with illegal drugs and hacking software. He is wanted by US authorities on charges of conspiracy to distribute narcotics, conspiracy to commit computer hacking and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Squeezed but pleased. The judge, Mr Justice Paul McDermott, rejected all grounds of Mr Davis’s opposition to the request including that his Constitutional rights and....

IRELAND — The High Court will decide on the extradition of Gary Davis (27), from Johnstown Court, Kilpedder, on a mixed bag of hacking and laundering charges stemming from the Silk Road (SR) website. Davis, otherwise known as “Libertas,” was indicted in late 2013 with two others, Peter Nash and Andrew Jones “Inigo,” for being SR moderators. However, two....