While with the DEA, Force, 46, was tasked with masquerading as a big-time drug dealer who had connections to hit men, infiltrating Silk Road and communicating with the online drug bazaar’s ...

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“While investigating the Silk Road, former DEA Agent Carl Force crossed the line from enforcing the law to breaking it,” Assistant Attorney General Caldwell said in a statement. “Seduced ...

Carl Force, a DEA agent accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Silk Road drug-trafficking website while he investigated it, will plead guilty, according to court papers ...

Green said he had access to messages sent among Silk Road users and details of payments and transactions. In April 2012, a DEA undercover agent in Maryland posing as a drug smuggler began ...

The DEA said officials are aware of Silk Road and are being "very proactive in keeping abreast" of the high-tech tools online drug sellers use to avoid detection. Silk Road's customers sell drugs ...

In a statement, the U.S. attorney’s office said Force was the lead undercover agent in communication with Ulbricht when the DEA went after the Silk Road founder between 2012 and 2014.

"If he was using his DEA computer to do these things ... just as everyone using the Silk Road and its drug dealers were," Greenberg said. Ulbright has already been convicted of running Silk ...

Just a month before leaving the DEA, Force created a Bitcoin speculation ... Authorities also claim that Force created another, unauthorized Silk Road identity called "French Maid" and offered ...

On Silk Road, one of Force’s psuedonyms was Nob ... which he administered alongside his work at the DEA. LinkedIn Through Engedi, Force built and sold Bitcoin mining machines.

Assistant U.S. Attorney General Leslie Caldwell said in a statement from Washington, D.C., “While investigating the Silk Road, former DEA Agent Carl Force crossed the line from enforcing the law ...