People seem pretty sure that they have already clearly identified the entire little "posse" of amateur crime guys involved. At this point, their only hope is if they start ratting each other out. If they haven't already. 
Do you have a link to the progress on identifying these people? I haven't seen anything beyond all the fake dns info. I'd be very curious to see where the collective investigation work stands.
Yes, we're running investigations in #bitcoin-police on freenode.
http://bitcoin.crimeunit.net/wiki/index.php/MyBitcoin < not alot here, alot more in channel