The Silk Road 2, ήταν ο αντικαταστάτης της περιβόητης on-line drug-market which ended in October of 2013. According to TheVerge, the FBI and the US Department of Homeland Security have managed to close Silk Road 2. The hidden site and its forum stopped working, and now a FBI page is displayed. 
In a public statement, the FBI said that administrator Blake Benthall ("Defcon") was arrested in California on Wednesday. The 26-year-old Benthall has reportedly been in "control and oversight of all Silk Road 2 services" since December 2013, a month after the site was launched. He is accused of conspiracy, drug trafficking, cyber hacking, forgery, and money laundering.
According to the FBI, Silk Road 2 had approximately 150.000 active users and was doing $8.000.000 in sales per month as of September 2014. Shutting down the site was made possible when an undercover agent managed to infiltrate, and obtained access in administrative functions. They were in regular contact with Benthall who had beaten her confidence of. If convicted, Benthall faces up to life in prison.
