It shut down the website, seized its assets ... in San Francisco on Oct. 1. The FBI estimates that Silk Road's operator made $80 million in commissions from the site's users, court papers say.

Silk Road, the online drug marketplace, is now under FBI control. The agency also arrested Ross William Ulbricht, who they say created it. The FBI has shut down the online drug bazaar Silk Road ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigations has seized the online black market website Silk Road and arrested its alleged owner Ross Ulbericht, 29, who also goes by the name "Dread Pirate Roberts." ...

The FBI seized control of a controversial website which made buying drugs as easy as going to the store.Doc: FBI seizes 'Silk Road'The black market bazaar known as the Silk Road is now offline and ...

When the FBI arrested alleged Silk Road boss Ross William Ulbricht and took his site down, they seized the site's assets which were primarily the currency of choice on the anonymous online drug ...

The FBI seized Bitcoin-powered Silk Road today ... He is said to have made $79.8 million in commissions from the website while Silk Road overall did $1.2 billion in sales. Christopher Tarbell ...

The FBI announced that yesterday it ... “As alleged, Blake Benthall attempted to resurrect Silk Road, a secret website that law enforcement seized last year, by running Silk Road 2.0, a nearly ...

Silk Road website raided by FBI, Ross William Ulbricht arrested. Oct. 2, 2013— -- A billion dollar black market website allowed people to use Bitcoin digital currency to buy guns, drugs or ...

The FBI says it has shut down the notorious Silk Road website - an online marketplace ... The FBI said it has also seized approximately $3.6m (£2.2m) worth of virtual currency Bitcoin.

Light just reached one of the darker corners of the web: the FBI has seized Silk Road, a site infamous for hosting anonymized, Bitcoin-based drug and gun sales.The move follows a sting operation ...

The underground website, The Silk Road, was known as the Amazon of illegal drugs. Yesterday, the FBI arrested the alleged founder of the Silk Road, a 29-year-old named Ross William Ulbricht.

The FBI has shut down Silk Road, a hard-to-find e-commerce site on the “Deep Web” that allegedly trafficked in drugs, guns, computer-hacking, money-laundering and even murder-for-hire.