Despite (or perhaps because of) a high-profile bust of the original Silk Road, the online drug market is back and more successful than ever -- and this time it brought some friends. Share on Facebook ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ross Ulbricht, formerly known online by the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts" (a nod to the novel "The Princess Bride"), is known ...

Blake Benthall, revisiting Florida Street, where he was arrested in 2014 for operating Silk Road 2.0. August 14, 2024. Photo by Kelly Waldron. On a recent afternoon, Blake Benthall walked past his old ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) take down last week of Silk Road 2.0 and two dozen other illicit markets has paved the way for enterprising kingpins to rush into the void and give the ...

U.S. Attorney’s Office Nov. 06, 2014-- Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the ...

MANHATTAN (CN) - As the second week of a conspiracy trial for the Silk Road's admitted founder began Tuesday, law enforcement took a Washington man into custody for allegedly managing the notorious ...

A large-scale bust by the FBI and the UK's National Crime Association has resulted in the arrest of 17 individuals in several countries, and the shut down of more than 25 other .onion (Tor) websites - ...

Irish man Gary Davis, also known as “Libertas,” has been sentenced to 78 months in prison for helping to run the now defunct Silk Road website on the dark web. The Irish national, who was extradited ...

A 26-year-old man has been charged with three counts of conspiracy for his alleged role in running Silk Road 2.0, which launched shortly after the demise of the first iteration of the infamous ...

Ross Ulbricht, formerly known online by the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts" (a nod to the novel "The Princess Bride"), is known today as the founder of the Silk Road marketplace, a former site on the ...