Two months ago, Blake Benthall, the alleged operator of the Silk Road 2.0, was arrested in San Francisco. Now, the feds have also arrested his alleged right-hand man---26-year-old Brian Richard ...

Silk Road 2.0 even claims some improvements over the old one. After the Bitcoin explosion, but before the FBI arrested Ulbricht, a number of new businesses developed, hoping to dethrone Silk Road.

Silk Road 2.0 offered a customer-friendly electronic storefront where vendors could display bricks of cocaine or hits of LSD in the same way a vendor would offer goods for sale on Amazon or eBay.

Silk Road 2.0 made its money through a 5 percent commission on each purchase. ... One listing advertised 5 grams of "Highest Purity Cocaine — Direct From Colombia," on sale for $488 in bitcoins.

Federal investigators have confirmed that Brian Richard Farrell has been arrested in connection with black market website Silk Road 2.0. Updated Mar 6, 2023, 3:34 p.m. Published Jan 21, 2015, 9:00 ...

The second-highest administrator on Silk Road 2, the copycat site that followed the shuttered underground drug website Silk Road, was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison—the same term that ...

The global crackdown on the Silk Road 2.0 and other black markets continued on Friday as federal authorities announced the seizure of more than 400 "dark market" website addresses and servers.

Silk Road 2.0 was shut down in 2015, following Operation Onymous, raids that targeted almost 400 suspected illicit marketplaces around the world. At the time, it was generating sales of about $8m ...

Silk Road 2.0 is not yet fully functional. Although product listings are active—marijuana, ecstasy, cocaine, heroin, DMT, mushrooms, ...

This article was published on January 21, 2015. Insider; Second Silk Road 2.0 suspect arrested in Seattle January 21, 2015 - 1:42 pm ...

A Washington state man was charged Tuesday with helping run what investigators call one of the most sophisticated and widely used criminal marketplaces on the Internet. The Silk Road 2.0 website ...

Cocaine, Meth For Sale On The Silk Road 3.0, The Latest Attempt To Reboot The Online Bazaar Founded By 'Dread Pirate Roberts' By Jeff Stone 10/23/15 AT 7:40 AM EDT.