The U.S. Justice Department has announced charges against two former federal agents accused of stealing the digital currency . Shaun Bridges , a former DEA agent , and Carl Force , a special agent with the Secret Service , were charged in a criminal complaint . Silk Road was an underground website where people bought drugs and other illicit goods using bitcoin digital currency . Force , 46 , and Bridges , 32 , belonged to a Baltimore-based federal task force investigating the Silk Road . Force had a prominent role in the probe , authorities said , and was the lead undercover agent in communication with the website 's alleged operator .
The U.S. Justice Department has announced charges against two former federal agents accused of stealing the digital currency . Carl Force , a former DEA agent , and Shaun Bridges , a special agent with the Secret Service , were charged in a criminal complaint . Silk Road was an underground website where people bought drugs and other illicit goods using bitcoin digital currency . Force , 46 , and Bridges , 32 , belonged to a Baltimore-based federal task force investigating the Silk Road . Force had a prominent role in the probe , authorities said , and was the lead undercover agent in communication with the website 's alleged operator .