Md. Man & Former Vendor Of Silk Road Drug Website Sentenced To 6 Years
BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- The former vendor of the Silk Road drug distribution website has been sentenced to prison Friday.
Jacob George, 33, of Edgewood, Md. was sentenced to six years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute drugs.
According to George's plea agreement, he sold drugs via Silk Road from November 2011 to January 2012. 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. 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.
Co-conspirator, 30-year-old Ross Ulbricht, of San Francisco, Calif., 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 Nov. 3. No court appearance in Maryland has been scheduled.
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