SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in San Francisco has sentenced a former Secret Service agent to nearly six years in prison for stealing about $800,000 in digital currency while investigating the Silk Road online black market and drug bazaar.

U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg on Monday sentenced former Secret Service agent Shaun Bridges to 71 months, one month shy of six years and well above the three-year sentence his defense lawyers had requested.

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