Security News > 2020 > September > Moderator of AlphaBay Dark Web Marketplace Gets 11 Years in Prison
2020-09-03 15:52
A Colorado man was sentenced this week to eleven years in prison for his role as a moderator on the AlphaBay cybercrime marketplace.
When taken down in 2017, AlphaBay was the most popular Dark Web marketplace for illegal products, and had over 400,000 users.
In 2018, Ronald L. Wheeler III, who worked as the public relations specialist for AlphaBay, was sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison.
The DoJ announced this week that Bryan Connor Herrell, 26, of Aurora, Colorado, who was a moderator on AlphaBay, being in charge with settling disputes between vendors and purchasers, received an 11-year prison sentence.
According to the DoJ, the investigation of the AlphaBay marketplace and its former administrators is still ongoing.
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