Earlier this month, we reported on the arrest and indictment of a Washington state couple that had been selling on The Silk Road, the infamous Tor-enabled online market.

This week it was revealed that one of the two, Steven Lloyd Sadler, was also a federal informant. Sadler was behind the "Nod" account on Silk Road, one of the top seller accounts on the site, according to the government.

On Monday, The Smoking Gun cited an audio recording from Sadler’s October 2 court hearing, in which a government prosecutor told the judge that “Mr. Sadler has been cooperating, working for the government for the past two months.” But Sadler’s cooperation with the government “abruptly came to an end this morning,” apparently “through reasons unrelated to [Sadler],” the prosecutor added.

Sadler's hearing date was just one day after Silk Road suspect Ross Ulbricht was arrested in California. That same day, the site was shuttered—Ulbricht's own case seems to have thrown a wrench into Sadler’s cooperation.

Sadler’s Bellevue condo was raided on July 31, 2013, not long after authorities performed a controlled buy via the “Nod” account. There, investigators seized heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, a .45 caliber pistol, and more. The Smoking Gun also published a court document showing that Sadler had violated his bond conditions.