3
Alleged Silk Road Moderators Arrested in
Global Sting
UPDATE: Dec. 20, 1 p.m. ET
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York confirmed the arrest of three
Alleged Moderators of the online black market
Silk Road. A representative told
Mashable Friday that law enforcement agencies have apprehended Andrew Michael Jones in Virginia, Gary Davis in Ireland and Peter Phillip Nash in Australia
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara unsealed an
indictment Friday listing conspiracy charges against the three men related to narcotics trafficking, computer hacking and money laundering. The indictment refers to the three suspects by their actual names and their supposed
Silk Road aliases — Jones is thought to have been "Inigo," Davis is thought to have been "Libertas" and Nash is thought to have multiple online aliases, including "Samesamebutdifferent," "Batman 73," Symmetry" and "A**nymousasshit."
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