Prosecutor release
Operator Of Silk Road 2.0 Website Charged In Manhattan Federal Court
United States Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York, November 6, 2014. Silk Road 2.0 seizure, Benthall arrest and charges, seizure of additional dark markets.
- Source type
- Prosecutor release
- Published
- November 6, 2014
- Research grade
- P1
- Used in entries
- 7
Bibliographic record
- Publisher
- United States Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York
- Published
- November 6, 2014
- Source type
- Prosecutor release
- Research grade
- Source grade P1
- Language
- English
- Official record
- Official publication
- Address
- No address recorded for this source. Publisher, title, and date are given so it can be retrieved from the publisher.
- What it supports
- Silk Road 2.0 seizure, Benthall arrest and charges, seizure of additional dark markets
- Dataset id
- src_doj_sdny_silk_road_2_2014
Research notes
- URL not re-verified in this pass.
How this source is used
Cited 7 times across 5 record types.
The role on each citation records what the source was relied on for. A primary source establishes the fact, a supporting source corroborates it, technical evidence describes the infrastructure, and a later outcome records what happened afterwards.
Sources were reviewed to a research cutoff of August 20, 2026. Addresses recorded after that date are not reflected here.
Cited by
Takedown records
1 citation
Cited on the takedown record itself.
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Operation OnymousPrimary source
Darknet market, November 2014
Organization roles
2 citations
Cited for an organization's recorded role in a takedown.
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Federal Bureau of InvestigationPrimary source
Co-lead, Operation Onymous
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United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New YorkPrimary source
Charging, Operation Onymous
Legal actions against people
2 citations
Cited for a recorded legal action against a named person.
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Blake BenthallPrimary source
Arrested, Operation Onymous
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Blake BenthallPrimary source
Charged, Operation Onymous
Infrastructure
1 citation
Cited for infrastructure recorded as acted on.
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Onion servicePrimary source
Onion service seized, Operation Onymous
Later activity
1 citation
Cited for activity recorded after the takedown.
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Silk Road 2.0Primary source
Rebrand, Silk Road seizure