Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the online marketplace Silk Road, was sentenced to life in prison in 2015. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption ...

The Silk Road site was set up by Ulbricht in 2011 on the dark web, a part of the internet that's inaccessible to traditional search engines. It did not accept cash or credit cards; users had to ...

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

Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht, founder of online drug market Silk Road. Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison in 2015 on charges related to his website, where users could buy and sell drugs and ...

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he issued a pardon for Ross Ulbricht, who was sentenced to life in prison nearly a decade ago for creating the Silk Road, a website law enforcement called the ...

Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the website Silk Road, appears in an undated photograph made from his computer and presented as an exhibit during his 2015 criminal trial in New York federal court ...

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.

President Trump announced Tuesday night that he had granted a “full and unconditional” pardon to Ross Ulbricht, founder of the notorious dark website Silk Road. Trump, 78, announced his grant ...

Ulbricht, 40, was sentenced in 2015 for running the darknet platform Silk Road, which was used as an online black market for illegal drugs and other products purchased and sold using cryptocurrency.

President Donald Trump said he granted a pardon Tuesday to Ross Ulbricht, founder of the online marketplace Silk Road — a campaign promise Trump had made to libertarian voters. In a post on his ...

Trump Pardons Ross Ulbricht, Creator of Silk Road Dark Web Marketplace. Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for drug trafficking, computer hacking, and money laundering. By Charisma Madarang.

President Donald Trump granted a full pardon on Tuesday to Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road.. The infamous dark web marketplace served as a global hub for illicit drug sales that prosecutors ...