The Dread Pirate Roberts, head of the most brazen drug trafficking site in the world, was a walking contradiction. Though the government says he raked in $80 million in commissions from running ...

Silk Road was controlled by a shadowy website administrator with the moniker Dread Pirate Roberts, who prosecutors say took home millions in commissions on more than $1 billion worth of drug deals ...

An entrepreneur as professionally careful as the Dread Pirate Roberts doesn't trust instant messaging services. Forget phones or Skype. At one point during our eight-month preinterview courtship ...

A figure known only as the Dread Pirate Roberts ran the site. And next month, the government will try to prove in court that the Dread Pirate was a former physics graduate student. Steve Henn from ...

In the world you created over time, democracy didn't exist. You were captain of the ship, the Dread Pirate Roberts," she told Ulbricht as she read the sentence, referring to his pseudonym as the ...

Busted in San Francisco last month on allegations that he operated the underground website Silk Road under the online alias “Dread Pirate Roberts,” Ulbricht asked to be released on $1 million ...

The most disturbing part of the Dread Pirate Roberts (DPR) story is also the strangest: how the boss of the Silk Road drugs marketplace attempted to arrange not one but six murders-for-hire.

Online Silk Road chats involving Dread Pirate Roberts, the online alias Ross Ulbricht allegedly used to run the underworld drug bazaar, showed five of the executions were contracted through what ...

Ulbricht, known as the “Dread Pirate Roberts” of the massive online drug market, was arrested on federal drug trafficking, hacking, and money laundering charges on Oct. 2. Behind bars ...

Similarly anonymous, Ulbricht allegedly ran Silk Road under the online alias Dread Pirate Roberts, an online alias taken from The Princess Bride novel and movie. Prosecutors are scheduled to ...

The U.S. Marshals Service later sold off the bitcoin in four separate auctions. The Dread Pirate Roberts (often abbreviated DPR) alias was created not by Ulbricht but by a still-unidentified Silk ...