The cell where Canadian Alexander Cazes man was found dead at the Narcotics Suppression Bureau in Bangkok's Laksi district on Wednesday morning.(police photo) 
 
 Canadian drug suspect Alexander Cazes, 26, found dead in a cell at the Narcotics Suppression Bureau in Laksi district on Wednesday morning, is believed to have hanged himself, police said. 
 
 Cazes was wanted by US authorities. He was arrested in Bangkok on July 5 and arrangements were being made for his return to the United States to face charges there. 
 
 A duty officer noticed a towel hanging from the toilet door in his cell about 7am, but could not see him, police said. The officer unlocked and entered the cell and found Cazes dead in the toilet. 
 
 He promptly reported the discovery to senior officers at the Narcotics Suppression Bureau and to Thung Song Hong police station for investigation. 
 
 Police said Cazes was detained in the cell alone. The towel was his personal belonging and he was believed to have used it to hang himself. 
 
 The Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest on June 30 at the request of US authorities. Cazes was arrested at the Private House housing estate on Phutthamonthon Sai 3 Road in Thawi Watthana district on July 5. 
 
 Pol Maj Gen Surasak Khunnarong, narcotics suppression commander, said Cazes was due to meet a public prosecutor, who was to arrange his extradition to the US. 
 
 The duty officer and a female suspect detained in the opposite cell both said the Canadian asked what time it was before entering the toilet inside his cell. He was told it was about 7am. 
 
 There was surveillance camera footage showing the cell and there was no sign of physical assault. 
 
 Pol Maj Gen Chayapote Hasoonha, intelligence section commander at the Narcotics Suppression Bureau, said the Canadian had fled a drug prosecution in the United States. 
 
 He had been staying in Thailand for about eight years, worked as a computer programmer and had a Thai wife who had no doubts about his death, Pol Maj Gen Chayapote said. 
 
 A source said police who arrested Cazes had impounded four Lamborghini cars and three houses worth about 400 million baht in total. ||||| Bangkok: An administrator and suspected co-founder of AlphaBay, one of the world's largest dark web marketplaces that mysteriously went offline days ago, has been found dead in a Thai jail. 
 
 Alexandre Cazes, a 26-year-old Canadian, was found in a cell at Bangkok's Narcotics Suppression Bureau only an hour before he was due to meet with public prosecutors over proceedings for his extradition to the United States. 
 
 Alexandre Cazes was believed to be the owner of AlphaBay. Credit:Image via https://hanke.io/darknet-business-alphabay-desnake/ 
 
 Police seized several million dollars, four Lamborghini cars and three properties when Cazes was arrested on July 5, the same day that AlphaBay went offline, prompting rumours that its administrators had run off with customers' money. 
 
 But the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that a law enforcement operation spanning three countries had shut down the site, with Canadian police seizing its servers in Quebec. ||||| A 26-year-old Canadian found dead in his Thai police cell this week was wanted in the US for allegedly running a massive "dark web" marketplace for drugs and other contraband, a police source told AFP news agency on Saturday. 
 
 Thai police arrested Alexandre Cazes in Bangkok on July 5 and had planned to extradite him to the US, where he faced drug trafficking and money laundering charges. 
 
 But the computer programmer hanged himself with a towel in his detention cell a week later on July 12, according to Thai anti-narcotics police, who have been tight-lipped on the details of his case. 
 
 On Saturday a Thai officer confirmed Cazes was accused of being an "operator" of a major online black market. 
 
 "It's a huge dark web market that trafficks drugs and sells other illegal stuff," the police officer said, requesting anonymity. 
 
 Speculation is rife that the underground marketplace was AlphaBay, considered the world's largest and most lucrative darknet bazaar until it was taken down within hours of Cazes' arrest. 
 
 Like its predecessor Silk Road, which was shut down by the FBI in 2013, AlphaBay used the encrypted Tor network and virtual currencies like Bitcoin to shield customers from detection.
– He was thought to be a kingpin in the mysterious world of the dark web, and now the 26-year-old Canadian is dead. Authorities say that Alexandre Cazes is believed to have hanged himself in his holding cell in Thailand after his arrest earlier this month, reports the Bangkok Post. As the Sydney Morning Herald explains, Cazes is reputed to be a co-founder of AlphaBay, one of the internet's top sites for the illicit sale of everything from drugs and weapons to forged IDs and stolen credit cards. Or at least it was: AlphaBay went dark on July 5 after authorities seized its servers in Canada as part of a multi-nation raid. Police also arrested Cazes on July 5 in Bangkok, where he is believed to have been living for the last eight years, and impounded luxury cars and mansions, per the Bangkok newspaper. He was known as DeSnake online. Cazes, who was being held at Bangkok's Narcotics Suppression Bureau, was found dead in his cell last week, about an hour before he was to meet with prosecutors over his extradition to the US. His AlphaBay became a force on the dark web a few years ago after the downfall of its main predecessor, Silk Road. It was "more than twice as big as Silk Road was in its heyday, with a revenue of somewhere between $600,000 and $800,000 a day in early 2017, and that's a rather conservative estimate," one expert tells the AFP. The US Embassy in Bangkok confirmed that Cazes had been detained "with a view toward extradition to face federal criminal charges." If it was indeed a suicide, Cazes might have wanted to avoid the fate of Silk Road founder "Dread Pirate Roberts," now serving a life sentence.