From the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Baltimore:
U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced a former drug vendor on the Silk Road website, Jacob Theodore George IV, age 33, of Edgewood, Maryland, today to six years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute drugs, including heroin.
The sentence was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; Special Agent in Charge William Winter of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI); Assistant Special Agent in Charge Gary Tuggle of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Baltimore District Office; Postal Inspector in Charge Gary R. Barksdale of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service – Washington Division; Special Agent in Charge Brian Murphy of the United States Secret Service – Baltimore Field Office; and Special Agent in Charge Thomas J. Kelly of the Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation, Washington, D.C. Field Office.
“Today’s sentencing again underscores HSI’s commitment to continue working with our domestic and international law enforcement partners to identify and arrest individuals who are conducting criminal activities by using networks and digital currency designed to provide anonymity, such as Tor and bitcoins,” said HSI Baltimore Special Agent in Charge William Winter, quoting a post on the Bitcoin Evolution. “International drug traffickers are on notice that this illegal trade will not be tolerated.”
“Mr. George believed that he could operate with impunity on the Internet, providing a “service” to drug users and drug dealers alike. In doing so, he increased his trafficking network in the Baltimore area. Internet usage exists is in every home in the United States: our children communicate with their friends, work on school projects. Parents trust that their children are engaged in these activities safely in their homes. I am proud to say with the joint efforts between DEA and our law enforcement partners, Mr. George will no longer have access to this expansive illicit marketplace on the Internet.”
According to his plea agreement, from at least November 2011 to January 18, 2012, George sold drugs via Silk Road. George made contact with buyers via Silk Road, accepted payment electronically through Silk Road using bitcoin, a digital currency, and shipped drugs via the United States Postal Service to buyers throughout the United States and in foreign countries. The owner and operator of Silk Road, alleged to be Ross William Ulbricht, collected a fee for each transaction on the website. George acquired drugs from two primary sources: he purchased some drugs, including heroin, from drug dealers in the Baltimore metropolitan area; and he purchased synthetic drugs, including methylone, from suppliers in China and had those drugs shipped to him. In one of the first seizures of its kind, federal agents also seized bitcoin used by George to buy and sell drugs on the Silk Road website.
Ross Ulbricht, a/k/a “Dread Pirate Roberts,” a/k/a “DPR,” age 30, of San Francisco, California, has been indicted in Maryland and in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on charges related to his alleged operation of the Silk Road website. Ulbricht is scheduled for trial in New York on November 3, 2014. No court appearance in Maryland has been scheduled. An indictment is not a finding of guilt. An individual charged by indictment is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty at some later criminal proceedings.
United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein praised HSI Baltimore, DEA, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, U.S. Secret Service and IRS-Criminal Investigation for their work in the investigation. U.S. Attorney Rosenstein recognized U.S. Attorneys Preet Bharara and Zach Fardon of the Southern District of New York and the Northern District of Illinois, respectively, and their offices; the FBI; and Senior Trial Counsel James Silver of the U.S. Department of Justice Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property Section for their assistance in the case. Mr. Rosenstein thanked Assistant United States Attorney Justin S. Herring, who prosecuted this Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force case.
Not much time, he will be on the street in four years. all rested up and ready for further illegal activity
That there do be FED time. You don’t get breaks. He’ll be there 6 years……….
Hey, Rod Rosenstein, when are you going to investigate the criminal actions of Joseph Cassilly’s State’s Attorney Office and the corrupt Judges of Harford County? Carr, Marshall and Eaves are crooks that specialize in Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law. Cassilly’s office uses perjury on a regular basis to force convictions with constitutional errors all the time! The three corrupt Judges I already mentioned facilitate the crimes by providing intentionally invalid warrants, holding defendants without bond or high bonds and forcing defendants to take plea bargains against their will! Judge Carr is the Administrative Judge of this corrupt little county and he is the main one helping the cops and the State’s Attorney Office to force the prosecutions. Oh yeah, why don’t you Investigate Jesse Bane also! He makes new positions for cops that break the law and can’t continue on their careers of terrorism in Harford County, isn’t that right Sean Marston! Sean “the liar” Marston can’t even be mentioned in Task Force cases anymore or be involved in investigations, so Jesse makes him a pilot of EAGLE 1! Seriously, Sean Marston has been violating the law and the United States Constitution for at least the last 10 years, so Jesse says “Thanks for all the illegal convictions Sean, you did our Department proud, so in exchange for your years of perjury, here is a nice cushy job flying around Harford County using EAGLE 1 to violate the rights of every citizen in our County! Rod, you want to do the citizens of Harford County a favor, COME AND INVESTIGATE, COME AND PROSECUTE, GET RID OF THE CANCER THAT HAS INFECTED LAW ENFORCEMENT AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM OF HARFORD COUNTY! Yes, it has come to this……..
Like I’ve, and others have told you many times over the past couple you’ve been spewing this bs…if your allegations have any truth to them take your evidence to the feds. There are plenty of pencil pushers there who love to go after local police agencies for anything they can.
Of course, it’s easier to just post anonymous bullshit on The Dagger, but I doubt anyone from the US DoJ is using The Dagger as a source of intel or would put any stock in what some anonymous poster with an obvious axe to grind and no proof claims on here.
You must be kidding me right? The Feds normally help them! Look at how Cassilly had the Feds go and arrest Valerie Carlton and try to extradite her from New York on misdemeanor charges! It almost worked, but New York courts had some integrity and refused extradition back down to Naziville. Just look at 12K10000473, notice its still active yet Val was arrested by Feds and released by the fine folks in New York. Just check out http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1048/jewish-american-mother-tortured and see the rest! Harford County is corruption personified!
http://www.valeriecarlton.com/
And this http://williamlanderson.blogspot.com/2011/11/valerie-carlton-caseagain.html
What about this https://www.facebook.com/VindicateValerieCarlton/info
I can do this all day long …http://ellenbeverleypascal.wordpress.com/tag/valerie-carlton/
Cassilly, you have got to go you little twerp! You should be in jail IGNATIOUS! Just remember what your name sake got, thrown to the wild animals in the Coliseum! You deserve the same fate, if not worse!
“Seven Nation Army”
I’m gonna fight ’em off
A seven nation army couldn’t hold me back
They’re gonna rip it off
Taking their time right behind my back
And I’m talkin’ to myself at night
Because I can’t forget
Back and forth through my mind
Behind a cigarette
And the message comin’ from my eyes says leave it alone…
Don’t wanna hear about it
Every single one’s got a story to tell
Everyone knows about it
From the Queen of England to the hounds of hell
And if I catch it comin’ back my way
I’m gonna serve it to you
And that ain’t what you want to hear
But that’s what I’ll do
And the feeling coming from my bones says find a home…
I’m going to Wichita
Far from this opera forevermore
I’m gonna work the straw
Make the sweat drip out of every pore
And I’m bleeding, and I’m bleeding, and I’m bleeding
Right before the lord
All the words are gonna bleed from me
And I will think no more
And the stains comin’ from my blood tell me “Go back home”…
“Dangerous”
How could you know, how could you know?
That those were my eyes
Peepin’ through the floor, it’s like they know
It’s like they know I’m looking from the outside
And creeping to the door, it’s like they know
And now they coming, yeah, now they coming
Out from the shadows
To take me to the club because they know
That I shut this down, ’cause they been watching all my windows
They gathered up the wall and listening
You understand, they got a plan for us
I bet you didn’t know that I was dangerous
It must be fate, I found a place for us
I bet you didn’t know someone could love you this much
How could they know, how could they know
What I’ve been thinking?
But they’re right inside my head because they know
Because they know, what I’ve been hidin’
They’re right under my bed, they’re in control
Here they come, yeah here they come
Out of the shadows
To take me to the club because they know
That I shut this down, ’cause they been watching all my windows
They gathered up the wall and ’cause they
I’ve gotta get out of here
Sink down, into the dark
Keep on running
And I’ve gotta get out of here (keep on running)
Sink down, into the dark
You understand, they got a plan for us
I bet you didn’t know that I was dangerous
It must be fate, I found a place for us
I bet you didn’t know someone could love you this much
Nobody’s listening when we’re alone
Nobody’s listening, there’s nobody listening,
No one can hear us when we’re alone
No one can hear us, no, no one can hear us
And I’ve gotta get out of here
Sink down, into the dark
Keep on running
I’ve gotta get out of here (keep on running)
Sink down, into the dark
You understand, they got a plan for us
I bet you didn’t know that I was dangerous
It must be fate, I found a place for us
I bet you didn’t know someone could love you this much
Looks like I touched a nerve there.
So go take your evidence to the feds and get something done, or if you’re so convinced they’ll brush it under the rug take it to CNN, MSNBC, etc and make it a national news story. I’m sure the media would love another excuse to slam a police department, and they’ll probably do it with only your side of the story.
But seriously, i hope you’re getting some sort of regular counseling. You seem more than a little unbalanced.
So……….
Didn’t you post as CONCERNED WIFE on another post……..
And who doesn’t remember the Anthony Graber debacle! A perfect example of Cassilly being a complete and utterly incompetent moron of a prosecutor…….https://www.aclu.org/free-speech-technology-and-liberty/wrongful-charges-dropped-against-motorcyclist-prosecuted-videotap
That cop should have been fired, did the victim file suit for false arrest?
Cassilly, you are a complete joke of a prosecutor and a sorry excuse for a human being……..http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2010-09-27/news/bs-md-recorded-traffic-stop-20100927_1_police-officers-plitt-cell-phones
A scared woman called 911 in Harford co.because her husband was sick. BEWARE, they use 911 to profile, not to protect?. The police came instead of the ambulance. They forced they’re way into her home, they threatened her and told her to sit down and shut up and don’t move,They searched the entire home “without a search warrant”. After they walked through 3 closed doors and found what they wanted, off to jail her husband went, but only after they tazzed him with his hands cuffed behind his back and oh, secured a search warrant.The charging papers were one lie after the other but she signed them because they had purposely scared her to death. People we hate and despise gathered in their lush chambers to decide how much money they were going to make from us, i wasn’t invited, i was in jail, legally according to them? “Harford co, The epitome of corruption”.. How can these people stay in power for so long and why are they not in jail? It is very easy to understand why no one trust the police in Harford co. or the government any longer….With friends like these, id rather have enemies. Everyone i know is moving out of Maryland. It has become the playground for politically hungry monsters.
Here is another shining example of wrongful convictions in Harford County! Really, is this crap ever gonna stop!
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=620683201277180&id=152571924754979&fref=nf
Joseph Cassilly, Christopher Tabone, Melissa Lambert, Disgraced Judge William Carr, Disgraced Judge Thomas Marshall Retired, Disgraced Judge Angela Eaves and the Disgraced Judge Mimi Cooper, you all need to go! You are a disease upon the Criminal Justice System and each and every one of you belong in a Federal Prison for Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law!