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

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he had pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, an underground website for selling drugs. Ulbricht had been sentenced to life ...

DALLAS — A University of Texas at Dallas alumnus and founder of Silk Road, an underground website used for selling drugs, was pardoned by President Donald Trump this week. Ross Ulbricht was ...

According to the office, Ulbricht, who was known as "Dread Pirate Roberts" (archived) on Silk Road, created the underground website in January 2011 and oversaw its operation until authorities shut ...

(AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he had pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, an underground website for selling drugs.

In 2011, Ulbricht founded the underground website Silk Road, which quickly became a flourishing marketplace for anyone who wanted to buy cocaine, heroin or other illegal drugs over the internet ...

President Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of notorious 2010s drug trafficking website Silk Road, on Tuesday. Ulbricht, 40, was serving a life sentence in federal prison following his ...