SAN FRANCISCO — A San Francisco man denies charges that he operated an encrypted website where users could anonymously shop for drugs such as heroin and LSD, his attorney said on Friday. “We deny all ...

“[Dread Pirate] Roberts isn’t actually the site’s founder, he revealed in our interview. He credits Silk Road’s creation to another, even more secretive entrepreneur whom he declined to tell me ...

Chat logs and other digital records entered into evidence in a federal court case Monday detailed how the operators of the infamous Silk Road underground online marketplace planned to have individuals ...

Much has happened since the first Silk Road report that we released a month ago. In mid-July, a Silk Road user was arrested by... The owner and operator of Silk Road, aliased as Dread Pirate Roberts, ...

Ross Ulbricht, formerly known online by the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts" (a nod to the novel "The Princess Bride"), is known today as the founder of the Silk Road marketplace, a former site on the ...

Ross Ulbrecht of Austin, Texas, is an Eagle Scout, has a degree in physics and last year gave an interview to StoryCorps that’s still on YouTube. Not the original Dread Pirate Roberts, the character ...

The man behind the online illegal drug website Silk Road is 29-year old Ross William Ulbricht. He's also known as Dread Pirate Roberts. Earlier this week, federal agents arrested him on charges ...

Today a judge sentenced Ross Ulbricht to life in prison for charges stemming from his involvement in the online underground marketplace Silk Road. Allowing its users to hide behind Bitcoin and the ...

Catching criminals in the online realm often involves the old-fashioned footwork of tracking them down in real life. But the expended shoe leather still only goes so far in cyberspace, federal ...

U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the creator of dark web marketplace Silk Road. The claim about Trump pardoning Ulbricht, the creator of Silk Road, was true. Furthermore, Ulbricht ...

Bartholomew Roberts, a Welshman, didn't drink or swear and hated cruelty; dressed well; liked music and, according to wikipedia.com, had beautiful handwriting (plenty of time to practice at sea, I ...