Silk Road 2.0 Admin Gets an 8-Year Prison Sentence

28-year-old Brian Farrell aka “DoctorClu”, a senior admin as well as second-in-command on Silk Road 2.0, the copycat clone of the master copy surreptitious darknet website Silk Road was sentenced to 8 years inwards prison.

DoctorClu, the right-hand human being to Silk Road 2.0 principal Blake Benthall aka “Defcon” as well as second-highest admin at Silk Road 2.0 was sentenced to 8 years inwards prison theater after pleading guilty to 1 count of distribution of cocaine, heroin as well as methamphetamine. Brian Farrell, plead guilty inwards March 2016 as well as his plea was accepted the next month.

The accuse carries a minimum judgement of v years. However, the sentencing for 8 years is notably the same prison theater judgement sought yesteryear prosecutors for the government.

Silk Road 2.0 was launched inwards belatedly 2013, the same twelvemonth that Silk Road’s founder Ross Ulbricht was arrested alongside the master copy website afterwards seized yesteryear police enforcement authorities.

In court documents, it is revealed that Farrell’s address was obtained yesteryear police enforcement after zeroing inwards on a Comcast IP address. “I bargain alongside bitcoins,” Farrell had said, spell insisting that he had never bought or sold drugs on Silk Road. He stated that the website was the “shady side of bitcoins”.

A calendar month later on Jan 2, 2015, authorities received evidence from a cooperating witness that Farrell was involved inwards Silk Road 2.0. With a search warrant, agents seized “various estimator media”, drug paraphernalia, silvery bullion bars worth $3,9000 as well as or as well as therefore $35,000 inwards fiat USD, along alongside iii handguns.

Eventually, Farrell stated that the authorities aren’t “going to honor much of a bigger fish” than him when asked to put others involved inwards Silk Road 2.0.

Farrell was originally charged alongside conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, an offense that carries a mandatory 10 years inwards prison. However, he pleaded guilty to a lesser-included offense of the same criminal offense as well as agreed to the eight-year prison theater sentence, according to the plea agreement.

The $35,000 inwards cash as well as the silvery bullion volition too endure forfeited to the government, inwards improver to the sentencing.

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