It only puts it into a bad light with mindless people. Criminals can use anything. Does that make everything a criminal uses bad? If we start using "logic" like that can you see just how far and ridiculous it can go?
We may as well say cellphones are bad because criminals use them. Chat apps are dangerous and criminal organizations use them. Hell the internet itself must be bad then.
Despite how logical some people may claim to be people use their emotions to make decisions most of the time, for anyone that is willing to calm down a little bit after reading the story they will immediately realize this person is not only using bitcoin, he knows the ins and outs of technology so he is far more difficult to catch than most criminals, so it is not only bitcoin but probably many more tools are being used to try to remain under the radar, so if we used that logic not only bitcoin should be banned but a great deal of other tools as well, and as you may guess that does not make sense at all.