Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is free after spending over a decade behind bars on drug and cybercrime charges — and he's ...

In that same photo the 40-year-old who'd been known as "Dread Pirate Roberts" on the dark web marketplace ... with an additional 40 years tacked on to boot. As he explained in the post, Ulbricht ...

In 2015, Ulbricht, who went by the dark-Web sobriquet Dread Pirate Roberts—a reference to a shifting character in “The Princess Bride”—received two life sentences without the possibility ...

In a shock decision sparking international outrage, US President Donald Trump has granted a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the mastermind behind the notorious Silk Road website – an online black ...

When users signed up for the website, which went live in 2011, they were greeted by a message from the founder, “Dread Pirate Roberts”, the hero of the film, explaining how the site worked.

President Trump said Tuesday night that he had given a “full and unconditional” pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, an online black market which enabled users to buy and sell ...

"Prosecutors said Ulbricht, who was known online as "Dread Pirate Roberts," founded Silk Road in January 2011.Before it was shut down by law enforcement in October 2013, it emerged as what ...

In 2015, a federal judge sentenced Ulbricht to life in prison for operating Silk Road under the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts." But last May, while on the 2024 campaign trail, Trump promised to ...