If I'm reading this right, this is a case of the FBI raiding the location of the leader of a ring of hackers and that leader going offline after confirming that

If I'm reading this right, this is a case of the FBI raiding the location of the leader of a ring of hackers and that leader going offline after confirming that the raid had happened. Unless I'm mistaken on that reading, that leaves a few key differences from what's being alleged in this thread: * The target was committing crimes which were documented prior to the raid. * The target was able to and chose to reach friends and tell them what happened. * The target went nonresponsive after informing their friends of what happened. * The friends allege that the location was raided but don't even imply that the leader is in federal custody. * The leader is pseudonymous, so we fully expect that if they decide to go offline and stop using that handle that they will disappear. That's not the same thing as a person with a stable real-world identity vanishing.