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#1120 Chris Tarbell | Former FBI Agent On Early Bitcoin & Silk Road Takedown

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You Know I've Never Been Arrested by the FBI

"I frisk Ross you know one of the first things I always do is I put my hand right in their chest," says FBI agent. "You want to work with him so don't take his freedom away let somebody else do that", he adds. The two men were arrested on suspicion of running a Silk Road-style drug distribution network, but it was later revealed they had been working as part of an undercover sting operation against alleged drug lord Pablo Escalona. They are now being held without bail and face up to 20 years behind bars if convicted.

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