Then Deryeghiayan struck up a conversation with the Ulbricht over a dedicated chat system set up for Silk Road staffers, the better to catch Ulbricht red-handed in the act of managing the site. As part of a coordinated law enforcement effort designed to prove that Ulbricht was the Dread Pirate Roberts and to seize his laptop before he could encrypt its hard drive, Deryeghiayan and a half dozen FBI agents surveilled Ulbricht as he left his apartment on October 1st, 2013, and walked to the Glen Park public library near his home. On the second day of Ulbricht’s trial in a Manhattan courtroom, Department of Homeland Security agent Jared Deryeghiayan told the jury a detailed account of his final conversation with the Dread Pirate Roberts, Silk Road’s owner and Deryeghiayan’s boss for the three months the DHS agent spent as an undercover Silk Road staffer. And he’s revealed that just before his fateful conversation with Silk Road’s kingpin, he had been watching Ulbricht from less than a block away. Now that undercover agent has told his story for the first time. When plainclothes feds grabbed Ulbricht's laptop and put him in cuffs, the prosecution in Ulbricht’s case says he was chatting online with an undercover agent who had infiltrated the staff of Silk Road, the massive online drug market Ulbricht is accused of creating. In total, there were at least 40 undercover agents at the riots, the motion said.The FBI agents who arrested Ross Ulbricht in the science fiction section of a San Franciso public library in October of 2013 left nothing to chance. In the motion filed this week, Pezzola's attorney, Roger Roots wrote that two other law enforcement agencies outside of the FBI had undercover agents at the January 6 riots, including "13 undercover plain-clothes agents" with the Washington D.C. According to the motion filed in early March, government witness Special Agent Nicole Miller provided the court all digital messages related to her testimony however, a further review of an Excel sheet showed additional messages that appeared to be hidden. During this period of time, the CHS also participated in prayer meetings with members of one or more of the defendants' families," Carmen Hernandez, an attorney for Rehl, wrote in a motion on March 23.Īdditionally, an attorney for Nordean previously filed a motion after " hidden messages" between two FBI agents were revealed. "During this period of time, the CHS has been in contact via telephone, text messaging and other electronic means, with one or more of the counsel for the defense and at least one defendant. Last month, the trial was halted after the government revealed that one witness scheduled to testify was an informant. The trial has faced several hiccups over the past few months as the attorneys for the Proud Boys have filed numerous motions. On Wednesday, April 5, 2023, an attorney for one of the Proud Boys members called on the government to reveal the informants and undercover agents at the January 6 riots. The motion this week comes amid the ongoing trial for the Proud Boys, where members including Pezzola, as well as Ethan Nordean, Enrique Tarrio, Joseph Biggs and Zachary Rehl, have been accused of seditious conspiracy and several other charges, in connection to the January 6 riots at the Capitol.Ī member of the Proud Boys holds an US national flag during a rally against gender-affirming care by Vanderbilt University Medical Center, at the War Memorial Plaza in Nashville, Tennessee, on October 21, 2022. The existence, and likely conduct of these CHSs is almost certainly exculpatory for Pezzola." "The federal prosecutors in this case are refusing to disclose information regarding these non-FBI informants. "Pezzola recently learned that a federal agency other than FBI-the Homeland Security Investigations (HIS) unit-was handling and running undercover CHSs on Jan. In a motion filed on Wednesday, the attorney for Proud Boys member Dominic Pezzola compelled the government "to reveal all informants, undercover operatives and other Confidential Human Sources (CHSs) relating to the events of January 6." government to unmask all of the informants and undercover agents involved in the January 6 Capitol riots. An attorney for a member of the Proud Boys recently called on the U.S.
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