"The
repentant informant: Stacy Litz became an informant after selling LSD
to an undercover cop. Now she says she's lost friends and been tossed
aside by police.":
The drug war paid a visit to Stacy Litz's Powelton Village apartment
on a Thursday afternoon, armed with a warrant, handcuffs and an offer.
It was September 2011, and Litz was well-aware that any deal, even a
nickel bag of weed, could make her a target, but she'd chosen sides long
before the law came knocking on Baring Street. Litz was a
political-science major at nearby Drexel University at the time, fully
engaged in libertarian and anarchist causes, denouncing government for
poking around in private lives. Litz, now 23, said that she purchased
psychedelics off the Internet to use and sell to friends, that she
wasn't a kingpin by any means. But one customer who bought LSD from her
turned out to be an undercover officer with the State Police.
The Internet could be anything, except SR is specifically mentioned in "Stacy Litz, a harsh lesson in statism..." by "ChrisCantwell":
Apparently the basic story goes like this, and I'm going to make this
very brief because the details are published elsewhere and I wish to
address principles, not rehash a single drug sting. While attending
Drexel University, Stacy and her friends buy a whole bunch of MDMA off
of Silk Road to use and sell. Stacy sees a great money making
opportunity and goes into business selling numerous different drugs. One
of Stacy's customers gets busted. He rats out Stacy, introducing her to
an undercover cop who proceeds to make 13 buys off of her before
busting her for 13 felony drug sale charges.
Verifying this proved difficult. Her blog is private and unavailable in the Internet Archive, likewise stacylitz.com
. There are no mentions of Litz in my copies of SRF1 or SRF2. The Pennsylvania docket sheet public records
verify the basics of her arrest & charges & pleading, but the
dockets do not include the complaints or any detailed filings which
might mention Silk Road. C4SS's disavowal does not mention SR (although the people in it were all likely familiar with SR, eg the S4SS June 2011 post on Silk Road).
Finally, I found 2 audio interviews by Litz:
At 6:22 of the TalkShoe interview, Litz mentions buying from Silk Road, and presumably she would know.
I believe that this makes Litz the earliest known arrest/prosecution of a SR buyer/seller.
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