He mentioned owning a second property where he could store the additional equipment, perhaps he has been in the process of relocating and tweaking hardware during the exchanges' downtime.

However, as far as getting away from the "law" and moving to such an extreme, his home and likely his close family's home are in MI and CreativeX implied they plan to stay there.

It seems so terribly unlike him to not provide even the smallest update, whether he had a family emergency or even "franchised"/sold the hashing hardware I would expect him to chime in. This makes me think he has certainly run into ...legal... issues, as I wish to give him the benefit of the doubt and refuse to believe he ran on everyone at this point in time.