At Silk Road trial, federal agent explains how he trapped Ulbricht
More people were using the mail to get high, and Jared Der-Yeghiayan knew it.
"We hadn't seen ecstasy being seized in letter-class like that in a long time," said the Homeland Security special agent. "Since I'd been at O'Hare."
Der-Yeghiayan was speaking on Wednesday from the stand in a Manhattan federal courtroom, where 30-year-old Ross Ulbricht stands accused of being the mastermind in the most successful drug-dealing website of all time, the Silk Road. On a large screen on the courtroom wall, prosecutors showed a photo of a table full of more than 20 envelopes, with a few varying kinds of labels, all used to ship drugs. "This was just one day," said Der-Yeghiayan, who pursued narcotics investigations from his office at the Chicago airport. "We hardly had seizures of ecstasy in years past."
