Not sure if anyone has posted this yet. Its the indictment against Cazes/alpha02/admin (doesn't mention desnake unless its buried in there).
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/982826/download
Cazes' personal email, "Pimp_Alex_91@hotmail.com," was included in the header of an AlphaBay welcome email that was sent to new users in December 2014. The email was also included in the header of AlphaBay password recovery emails sent in late 2014.
Law enforcement then discovered the email address belonged to a Canadian-born man named Alexandre Cazes with a birthdate of October 19, 1991.
A December 2008 post on the online tech forum "http://www.commentcamarche.com" was subsequently found in which a user going by the name "Alpha02" posted information in French on how to properly remove a virus from a digital photo. That post included both the name "Alexandre Cazes" and the email "Pimp_Alex_91@hotmail.com."
The email addresses was also tied to a PayPal account registered in Cazes' name.
When Cazes was arrested, law enforcement discovered his laptop open and in an unencrypted state, as well as logged into the server that hosted the AlphaBay site. While searching the computer they found several open text files with passwords for the AlphaBay site and servers, which allowed law enforcement to seize all the information and cryptocurrency on those servers.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/982821/download
- Desnake was not Cazes according to this
Literally stickied at the top of this sub