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Drugs, chatlogs, and fake IDs: Images from the Silk Road trial Here are a few of the more than 300 exhibits that got Ross Ulbricht convicted. Joe Mullin – Feb 5, 2015 12:12 pm ...
To attract customers and vendors and direct them to the secret site, Silk Road's operator initially had to publicize it on the Web. ... customs agents intercepted a package of nine fake IDs.
Federal agents arrested Ulbricht on Oct. 1 in the science fiction section of a branch of the San Francisco library. Prosecutors say Ulbricht was logged into the Silk Road site as "DPR" at the time ...
The site, which was shut down in 2013 alongside Ulbricht's arrest, was a notorious marketplace for illegal drugs, among other products.
The FBI caught the man accused of creating Silk Road – the shadowy e-commerce site it describes as “the most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the Internet today” – after ...
Federal shut-down of Silk Road was only speed bump, report says. This frame grab from the Silk Road website shows thumbnails for products allegedly available through the site. On Oct. 1, 2013, FBI ...
He had fake IDs shipped to his home address. I can't think of anything more bone-headed," Bruen said. "Silk Road sold access to private anonymous mail drops, yet he wouldn't spend the money to do ...
Feds Want to ID Web Trolls Who 'Threatened' Silk Road Judge Last week the Department of Justice issued a grand jury subpoena to the libertarian media site Reason.com, demanding that it identify ...
Drugs, chatlogs, and fake IDs: Images from the Silk Road trial Here are a few of the more than 300 exhibits that got Ross Ulbricht convicted. The hitman scam: Dread Pirate Roberts’ bizarre ...
Criminals who prowl the cyber-underworld's "darknet" thought law enforcement couldn't crack their anonymous trade in illegal drugs, guns and porn. But a series of arrests this month shows the G ...
The FBI caught the man accused of creating Silk Road – the shadowy e-commerce site it describes as “the most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the Internet today” – after ...
The FBI traced the man accused of running Silk Road – the Internet’s most extensive criminal marketplace – after he allegedly posted his Gmail address online.