and finally They couldn't have kept it up for long without it leaking, for one people would notice all of those people suddenly were not getting online anymore unless they all turned over their account info to the feds. For two I am pretty sure Adam knows people in the NL scene IRL and they would have found out he was arrested and word would have spread from them to the forums pretty quickly anyway. Many vendors know at least one or two other people from the forums IRL, we almost always learn quickly when someone is busted (at least in private scene) because someone who knows them and wasn't busted finds out quickly and it spreads from them word of mouth. I also wouldn't be so sure that this is the last of the arrests, there very well could already be dozens of others who merely didn't show up on this indictment. It isn't like they are going to charge all of the customers with running a continuing criminal enterprise etc, but I will be surprised if there are not at least two or three dozen other arrests linked to this that didn't make the news because they were not part of the indictment against the main players.