The site, which was shut down in 2013 alongside Ulbricht's arrest, was a notorious marketplace for illegal drugs, among other products.

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he had granted a pardon to Ross William Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road dark web marketplace. Ulbricht, who was accused of creating the shadowy ...

The Silk Road was an online marketplace where more than 100,000 users traded illegal drugs and other illegal goods while ...

Ross Ulbricht—who was serving a life sentence over a conviction for running a dark web illicit drug market before being ...

Trump pardons founder of drug marketplace whose case was championed by libertarians. Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison for owning and operating Silk Road, a dark web marketplace for ...

Ulbricht operated the anonymous digital marketplace known as Silk Road when law enforcement arrested him. The pardon fulfills a campaign pledge Trump made to Ulbricht's Libertarian supporters.

In its nearly three years of existence, Silk Road, which operated in a shady corner of the internet known as the dark web, became an international drug marketplace, facilitating more than 1.5 ...

Yi He clarifies that CZ presidential pardon rumors from Trump are false; no official evidence supports the claims, according ...

Ross Ulbricht, founder of the now-defunct darknet drug market previously known as Silk Road, thanked President Donald Trump for setting him free and hinted at his future plans in a video posted to X.