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Uhhhh no authorities investigated it for years and he got cocky and fucked up, and even then they had to ambush him in a public library before he could re-lock his laptop. It had literally nothing to do with BTC.
If you have not yet done so, go read a book called Tracers in the Dark.
It does a very good job explaining how surveillance coins are tracked.
tldr?
Don't use surveillance coins or you will be tracked.
WTF is surveillance coins
Any coin with a public blockchain where you can see what address sent how much to what address.