Ancheta was the first person to be arrested by FBI agents for running a botnet as a part of 'Operation Bot Roast' in November 2005. On May 9th, 2006 he pleaded guilty to 4 felony charges under United States Code Section 1030: Fraud and Related Activity in Connection with Computers and was sentenced to 5 years in prison, forfeiture of a 1993 BMW and more than $58,000 in profit. In addition he was ordered to pay restitution of $15,000 to the US Federal Government for infecting military computers.