United States President Donald Trump has decided to pardon Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the dark-web black market Silk Road ... he was serving a life sentence in prison for creating and operating ...

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht ... leaving prison wearing a grey sweatsuit and a smile. In that same photo the 40-year-old who'd been known as "Dread Pirate Roberts" on the dark web marketplace ...

Ross Ulbricht, who was arrested in 2013 and sentenced in 2015 to life in prison without the possibility of parole, became a symbol of both innovation and controversy. The Silk Road, a dark web ...

After being in prison for more than 11 years for his involvement with the darknet marketplace Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht appears ... Silk Road marketplace on the dark web in 2011, had been in ...

In 2015, with his sentencing hearing looming, Ross Ulbricht begged for a glimmer ... convicted on charges connected to commerce on the dark web platform, including drug trafficking, computer ...

For example, one X post claimed (archived), referencing the dark web marketplace Silk Road: "Trump pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who was sentenced to life in prison for running an online ...