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AlphaBay Dark Web Market Mod Faces 20 Years After Pleading Guilty

Posted on January 30, 2020 by Dissent

Sergiu Gatlan reports an update on the case against Bryan Connor Herrell, who was indicted in 2019.

Bryan Connor Herrell, a 25-year-old from Fresno, California, pleaded guilty this week in the US to racketeering charges related to the now-defunct dark web marketplace Alphabay.

Before AlphaBay was shut down by law enforcement in July 2017, Herrell was a marketplace moderator known under the Penissmith and Botah nicknames.

Read more on BleepingComputer.


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