Silk Road Heroin Dealer Sentenced to Six Years
**On Friday, one of the first defendants arrested in the Silk Road investigation received his federal prison sentence.
Jacob Theodore George IV, who was taken into custody in early 2012 for selling heroin from his Baltimore home, and has spent the past 2 1/2 years in a high-security federal lockup in downtown Baltimore, was sentenced to 6 years in federal prison.
According to Jacob George's plea agreement, from November 2011 to January 18, 2012, he sold drugs via Silk Road. George made contact with buyers via Silk Road, accepted payment electronically through Silk Road, and shipped drugs via the United States Postal Service to buyers throughout the United States and in foreign countries.
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. The Silk Road website collected a fee for each transaction on the website.
Silk Road was an online market. As part of the Deep Web, it operated as a Tor hidden service, such that online users were able to browse it anonymously and securely without potential traffic monitoring. The website launched in February 2011 and was first shut down by the FBI in October 2013, although new versions of the site have appeared online since.**
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Jacob Theodore George IV, 32
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