The man known as Dread Pirate Roberts -- 29-year-old Ross William Ulbricht -- was on his personal laptop Tuesday afternoon, authorities said, talking about the vast black market bazaar that is ...

NEW YORK — A federal judge gave convicted Silk Road darknet mastermind ... novel and movie — to run Silk Road from 2011-2013 as an encrypted electronic bazaar. The site matched buyers and ...

Online Silk Road chats involving Dread Pirate Roberts, the online alias Ross Ulbricht allegedly used to run the underworld drug bazaar ... days as classmates at an Austin, Texas middle school ...

The Dread Pirate Roberts is hunting for a lifeline. Lawyers for the founder of the online drug bazaar Silk Road tried to convince a federal appeals court Thursday to overturn his conviction and ...

Ross Ulbricht, a former Austin resident accused of running the $1.2 billion online drug ring called Silk Road, allegedly ordered a hit on six people he believed threatened the site, according to ...

The man known as the Dread Pirate Roberts was sentenced to life in prison for running a $214 million online drug bazaar called Silk Road, despite pleas for leniency for the 31-year-old from ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A new anonymous Internet marketplace for illegal drugs debuted on Wednesday, with the same name and appearance as the Silk Road website shut down by U.S. law enforcement ...

Enter the world of Silk Road, an online global marketplace purveying all manner of things illegal, questionable and just plain icky. “It’s ridiculously easy,” says one New York hacker ...

For the past two-plus years, the Silk Road has been the go-to place for tech ... and he's a 29-year-old "investment advisor and entrepreneur" based in Austin, according to his LinkedIn profile ...