"Silk Road has emerged as the most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the internet today," FBI agent Christopher Tarbell said in a criminal complaint lodged by the agency in 2013.

Law enforcement alleged Ulbricht “deliberately” operated Silk Road as an “online criminal ... distributing narcotics by means of the internet, conspiring to distribute narcotics, engaging ...

The Internet’s ingrained disdain for the war ... reversed only recently to a significant extent by the unprecedented rise of Silk Road. In 1997, one of the most significant heirs to the alt ...

Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison in 2015 for drug trafficking, computer hacking and money laundering ...

What the seizure shows is that while Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht is now a free man after being pardoned by President Trump a day after he came into office, others who sold narcotics on the dark ...

You may be familiar with the saga of illegal drug market the Silk Road, but that is just one small part of what is commonly called the "dark web." Accessible only ...

The Silk Road was also called "Silu" in Chinese. It was a general name for the ancient strategic transportation channel which started from China and passed through Central Asia, West Asia ...

A traditional sheepskin coat blows in the wind in Turtkul, Uzbekistan, on a highway that follows the ancient Silk Road. It wasn’t a single road but a network of commercial routes that once ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he had pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, an underground ... the role of the internet in illegal markets.