One of more interesting FBI operations took place last last week. Steven Lloyed Sadler, 40, is charged with dealing cocaine via internet. Using a nickname "NOD" Sadler managed an internet page called Silk Road. Silk Road is one of the most popular illegal black market pages on the internet. It is unclear if the shutting down of Silk Road will affect the market as a void opened for competing drug dealers. Federal authorities regard Silk Road one of the most dangerous black markets cause of high quality of small amounts of methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin used world-wide.
FBI working together with U.S Postal office tracked down the ip adresses and shipments from Sadler. The shipment of cocaine and heroin led to a citizen in Alaska who decided to contribute to the investigation in order to save himself from more trouble. Further investigating Sadler, the decision was made to place GPS tracking devices in his and his roommates, Jenna White's, cars. The tracking devices showed atleast 38 instances of them travelling to post offices while in time of surveillance.
In five months time, Sadler, managed to make at least 1,400 shipments with 2,269.5 grams of cocaine, 593 grams of heroin and 105 grams of meth, respectively. The fact that Silk Road allows clients to rate the service and quality of the purchase in the same way eBay does, means that Sadler can be prosecuted for these ratings showing numerous buyers. The servers for Silk Road site was located across the world in: Iceland, United States, Latvia and Romania. Already there are rumours that Silk Road 2.0 is underway and could be even more popular.
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