The FBI has shut down Silk Road 2.0, an online marketplace for illicit drugs that launched after the original Silk Road was taken down late last year.
The website’s administrator, Blake Benthall, was arrested in San Francisco and will appear in court in Wednesday. Benthall’s most serious charge of conspiring to commit narcotics trafficking carries a potential life sentence. He also faces allegations include money laundering, conspiracy and hacking.
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