Key player in Silk Road successor site gets eight years in U.S. prison

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Technology | Fri Jun 3, 2016 8:23pm EDT

Key player in Silk Road successor site gets eight years in U.S. prison

BY NATE RAYMOND

A Washington state man was sentenced on Friday to eight years in prison for his role in helping the management of the successor website to Silk Road, an online black market where illegal drugs and other goods were sold.

Brian Farrell, who prosecutors say was a staff member for Silk Road 2.0, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Richard Jones in Seattle after pleading guilty in March to a charge of conspiracy to distribute heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine.

Farrell, 27, was arrested in January 2015 as trial was under way in the case of Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the original Silk Road, which authorities say Ulbricht ran under the alias "Dread Pirate Roberts."

Ulbricht, 32, was sentenced in May 2015 to life in prison after a federal jury in Manhattan found him guilty on charges including distributing narcotics.

Silk Road 2.0 was launched late in 2013, weeks after authorities had shuttered the original Silk Road website and arrested Ulbricht.

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[Warren DeMontague]

1. So much for not filling prisons with non-violent drug offenders anymore.

Anyway, I'm sure this will finally stop people from trying to put things in own bodies that the authorities don't want them to, once and for all.