Minnesota Murder Plot Leads to Dark Web Investigation
Police charged a Cottage Grove, Minn. man with second-degree intentional murder for killing his wife, linking him to a Dark Web plot to pay for her murder before poisoning and shooting her and staging the death as a suicide, according to the South Washington County Bulletin in Cottage Grove, Minn. Bail was set at $1 million for Stephen Carl Allwine, 43, who was held in jail after he appeared Wednesday in Washington County District Court. District Court Judge Susan Miles set the $1 million bail without conditions or $500,000 with condition that he wear a GPS tracking device, remain in....
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Bitcoin is now being used by bad people to satisfy their hate. The U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday that a Mississippi woman was sentenced to spend a maximum of 10 years behind bars for her role in an unsuccessful murder-for-hire plot. Forty-year old Jessica Leeann Sledge pled guilty in February to hiring a purported assassin on the […]
The woman allegedly presented a sum of over $5,000 in bitcoin to a dark web admin as proof she could afford the hit.
A recent series of busts has shaken the world of dark net weapons commerce. A six-month joint investigation between law enforcement in Australia and the United States, which involved law enforcement going undercover as weapons dealers, has resulted in 17 arrests internationally. In September 2014, the US Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) identified a 33-year-old US-based dark net seller of weapons to a "worldwide client base," according to a press release from the Australian Federal Police (AFP). The arrest came as the result of the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service....
Minnesota's commerce commissioner has warned consumers in his state to be wary of bitcoin despite no reported bitcoin-related problems, according to Minneapolis The Star Tribune. The warning marks the third U. S. state regulator in a month to issue such a warning. Mike Rothman, the Minnesota commissioner, acknowledged that legitimate businesses are using bitcoin and developing legitimate uses for it to buy and sell goods. He also says there are no reports in Minnesota of consumers being scammed with bitcoin. He nonetheless warns there is a dark side to bitcoin and since it's not backed by....
The alleged architect of the first Silk Road, known to users as Dread Pirate Roberts and to the government as Ross Ulbricht, is currently facing two separate federal cases. The first is in Baltimore for a single murder-for-hire plot which the government feels it has enough evidence to proceed. The other is in New York for four counts of participation in a narcotics trafficking conspiracy, running a continuing criminal enterprise, computer hacking, and a money laundering conspiracy. Also read: SecondMarket's Bitcoin Investment Trust Syndicate Won 48,000 BTC in Latest Silk Road Bitcoin....