Florida Man Charged with Illicit Drug Sales

Orlando, FL – Matthew Jones, a 44-year-old resident of Dallas, Texas, has been charged with illegally distributing controlled substances.

According to the criminal complaint, Jones operated as the vendor ‘Caligirl’ on the Silk Road drug marketplace and was among the top 5% of all Silk Road vendors. Between April 10, 2013, and September 9, 2013, Caligirl’s Silk Road account completed 685 finalized sales of controlled substances.

Between July 11, 2013, and March 20, 2014, DEA agents purchased and seized more than 400 Oxycodone tablets and more than 900 Hydrocodone tablets from Jones. Jones shipped the controlled substances from Texas to Central Florida.

In addition to operating on Silk Road, Jones conducted his illicit drug trafficking business utilizing an encrypted and anonymized program called Bitmessage. Bitmessage is a decentralized, peer-to-peer, communications protocol that is used to send encrypted messages from one person to another or from one person to multiple persons.

A criminal complaint is merely an allegation that a defendant has committed a violation of federal criminal law, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless, and until, proven guilty.

Jones was arrested last night in Fort Lauderdale and made an initial appearance this morning in the Southern District of Florida. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison.

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