Ross Ulbricht, the convicted mastermind behind the Silk Road, was sentenced to life in prison without parole in a New York courtroom on Friday. During the 2.5 hour-long session, the court heard ...

Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Appeals Life Sentence. ByKate Vinton, Former Staff. Jun 05, 2015, 04:00pm EDT Jun 08, 2015, 11:47am EDT. Share. Save. This article is more than 10 years old.

A federal jury has found Ross Ulbricht guilty of running Silk Road, an online drug bazaar described by prosecutors as the most sophisticated criminal marketplace on the Internet.

The government said drug dealing made up nearly all of Silk Road's sales during its nearly three years in business, which ended with Ulbricht's October 2013 arrest. Prosecutors also discounted ...

The dark web has only grown in the years since the FBI seized the Silk Road’s servers and arrested its creator in late 2013. At that time, the site had roughly 12,000 listings, for items ranging ...

Silk Road founder's parents on son After a three-week trial, a federal jury has found 30-year-old Ross Ulbricht, creator of underground site Silk Road, guilty on all counts.

Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht is going to prison for the rest of his life, a federal judge ruled today. He was convicted of being the mastermind of an online bazaar best known for illegal drugs ...

Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the online illegal drug marketplace Silk Road, thanked those who voted for Donald Trump for his cause, hoping that the President-elect would commute his sentence What ...

One is Silk Road founder Dread Pirate Roberts, who the FBI claim is currently in their custody. The other is Satoshi Nakamoto, the still-unidentified creator of Bitcoin.

A federal judge in New York denied a new trial for the man convicted of owning and operating the Silk Road, a large online drug market. Ross Ulbricht, who was convicted in February, asked for a ...

Ross Ulbricht, creator of the underground website Silk Road, which let users anonymously buy and sell anything from drugs to hacking tutorials, was sentenced Friday to life in prison after he made ...