Chris Tarbell

And so that kind of brought us to a point.

The FBI has a computer system where you look up things.

You know, you look up anything.

I could look up your name or whatever if you're associated with my case.

And we were finding at the time a lot of things in, when you look it up, a case would end.

It would be like, oh, this is Tor.

It just stopped.

Okay.

We couldn't get any further.

So we had just had this big arrest of Sabu and took down Anonymous.

And sometimes in the FBI, the old school FBI, when you had a big case and you're working seven days a week and 14 hours, 15 hours a day, you sort of take a break.

The boss kind of said, yeah, I'll see you in a few months.

Go get to know your family a little bit and come back.

But

The group of guys I was with was like, let's find the next big challenge.

And that's when we were finding, you know, case closed, it was Tor.

Case closed, it was Tor.

So we said, let's take a look at Tor and let's see what we can do.

Maybe we'll take a different approach.

And Silk Road was being looked at by other law enforcement, but it was taking like a drug approach where I'm going to find a drug buyer who got, you know, the drug sent to them in the mail and let's arrest up.