His pseudonym: the Dread Pirate Roberts. The allegations presented in the Silk Road trial—which begins Tuesday, January 13th—read like they’re ripped from the pages of a tabloid rag edited ...

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 ...

Recently I watched the movie “The Princess Bride” for the 20th time. This amusing romp always brightens my mood. While not to everyone’s taste, it’s an excellent distraction from the day ...

Ross Ulbricht, a former Penn State graduate student, has been convicted of being the Dread Pirate Roberts, the leader of the Silk Road, an online drug emporium.

They sell pure cocaine in Colombia or Peru. There are over six thousand drugs available to be distributed in any part of the world. It was in June 2011, just days after U.S. blogger Adrian Chen has un ...

How the FBI tracked down Dread Pirate Roberts The Silk Road founder’s own carelessness led the FBI to his San Francisco home. Patrick Howell O'Neill. Updated on June 1 2021 5:08 am CDT ...

Ross Ulbricht, who called himself the Dread Pirate Roberts and created the Silk Road online drugs market, has just been sentenced to life in prison. In a letter to the judge, he pleaded for ...

The Dread Pirate Roberts (often abbreviated DPR) alias was created not by Ulbricht but by a still-unidentified Silk Road marijuana seed dealer who utilized the names Variety Jones and Cimon, and ...

Just over a month after the illicit drug-dealing website Silk Road was shut down and its alleged founder arrested, the site relaunched Wednesday morning.

We're republishing our finest work from the past decade. Here, the definitive profile of the Dread Pirate Roberts two months before Ross Ulbricht was arrested, later to be sentenced to life in prison.

The downfall of Silk Road and the capture of the alleged Dread Pirate Roberts has made digital newsreels and much digital ink has been spilled over the issue, and the saga is far from over. The presen ...