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Four suspected users of Silk Road Internet drug marketplace arrested in the UK |
October 08, 2013
Four men have been arrested by the U.K.'s National Crime Agency (NCA) for drug offenses in connection with their involvement in Silk Road, an Internet underground marketplace for drugs and other illegal items.The FBI shut down Silk Road, a website that was only accessible through the Tor anonymity network, in September and on Oct. 1 they arrested a man named Ross Ulbricht in San Francisco, who's believed to have been the site's owner and operator.Hours after the FBI arrested the suspected creator of Silk Road, officers from the National Crime Agency, a new U.K. law enforcement agency that went live Monday, arrested three suspects, two in their early 20s from Manchester and one in his early 50s from Devon.The three men are among several suspects identified as "significant users" of Silk Road as a result of close cooperation between NCA and American law enforcement agencies. Other U.K. suspects are to be arrested in the coming weeks, the agency said Monday.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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