German authorities arrest man over darknet drugs, guns shop
BERLIN — German authorities say they have arrested a 30-year-old man on suspicion of running a website used to sell mainly drugs and firearms.
Federal police said in a statement Monday that the unnamed man was arrested June 8 in the southwestern city of Karlsruhe.
He is alleged to have been the sole administrator of a so-called darknet site on which illegal items were bought and sold since March 2013.
Police say the site in question was used to initiate the purchase of a firearm used in a shooting in Munich last July in which nine people and the attacker died.