Online Drug Kingpin Arrested

[isnx2]

They have an online smoke website where its legal to sell there

Andddd
It sucks big time bc dude wasnt a supplier, just a middle man but they are def going to treat him like one.
He wont do a lot of time though.

 

[cedric ceballos]

kilojules?

Lmao na. I follow her on ig.

This dude was some older head on NT that was selling lean in Austin. Dude was getting money but going off all the pics and stuff he would post he was a tad but to out there with the stuff he was doing.

 

[dman14]

cant they get him on charges for trying send a hitman on another guy?

 

[gllahone84]

They unplugged the plug

 

[legendairy stinson]

He should of been living in a mansion in Mexico.

 

[championboyz7]

He should of been living in a mansion in Mexico.

The cartel ain't having that. .more like Cuba

 

[milestailsprowe]

The site collected 9.5 million in bitcoins and only 11.75 million exist.
Equivalent to $1.2 billion in sales and $80 million in commission

My dude was going in, wonder if we've ever crossed paths.

Did all of that within 2 years

Caking

He will either walk on some lawyer magic, get off easy or do 25

 

[undermedicated]

He should of moved to Brazil after the first few million. Odd they don't shutdown websites selling weed seedlings.

 

[Coromanti]

He should of moved to Brazil after the first few million. Odd they don't shutdown websites selling weed seedlings.

No can do buddy.  Brazil, in fact all of the Americas, has extradition agreements with the US.

Most countries where you can be offered the high life have extradition agreements with the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_extradition_treaties

 

[a blinkin]

he had them computers putin

How'd this gem go overlooked?

 

[AZwildcats]

Damn they took down Silk Road? I always thought that was a scam, had no idea people legit bought stuff from it.

 

[teamjordan79]

silk road = napster

*waits for kazaa*

 

[drones]

Google the guy and his LinkedIn comes up. Seems like he just got sloppy.

 

[nazdrowie]

the murder for hire thing is the only thing they should charge him with, every other charge is an abuse of my tax dollars.

 

[Bobby Layne]

Enlighten us

http://niketalk.com/t/509476/deep-web-anybody-still-on-this

http://niketalk.com/t/290045/does-niketalk-know-anything-about-the-deep-web/1350

Here's two thread's on it.  It's kind of interesting .

 

[trynafeelmink]

So considering this is anonymous are any of the purchases even able to be traced. I mean this really does alleviate tons of the dangers of trappin in the real world.

 

[RIP sleazyy]

So considering this is anonymous are any of the purchases even able to be traced. I mean this really does alleviate tons of the dangers of trappin in the real world.

The really, really stupid people who used their real emails to do transactions are ******. Purchases can be traced to an extent. Depends on how sloppy each side was.

A lot of people who have ordered from SR and BMR say they have had their packages flagged and received notices that their stuff was confiscated but that's been going on for a while. I'm confident they will be going after big sellers and buyers, not the kids buying eighths for $30 higher than normal or buying a zip of fungus.

Its people getting bulk orders or buying assault weapons and armor that they're keeping their eye on.

 

[the 7th mile]

Soooo close to getting down on the Silk Road, best decision I never made

 

[dman14]

...

 

[dman14]

20 yrs minimum :x

http://www.sfgate.com/business/tech...-years-in-prison-awaits-Silk-Road-6293509.php

Silk Road founder gets life for creating online drug site

Larry Neumeister and Jake Pearson, Associated Press Updated 3:12 pm, Friday, May 29, 2015

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FILE - This Feb 4, 2015, file courtroom sketch, shows defendant Ross William Ulbricht as the deputy recites the word “guilty” multiple times during Ubricht’s trial in New York. Ulbricht is set to be sentenced Friday, May 29, 2015, after his February Manhattan federal court conviction. Photo: Elizabeth Williams, AP / FR 142054AP

Photo: Elizabeth Williams, AP

FILE - This Feb 4, 2015, file courtroom sketch, shows defendant Ross William Ulbricht as the deputy recites the word “guilty” multiple times during Ubricht’s trial in New York. Ulbricht is set to be sentenced Friday, May 29, 2015, after his February Manhattan federal court conviction.

FILE - This Feb 4, 2015, file courtroom sketch, shows defendant Ross William Ulbricht as the deputy recites the word “guilty” multiple times during Ubricht’s trial in New York. Ulbricht is set to be sentenced Friday, May 29, 2015, after his February Manhattan federal court conviction.

NEW YORK (AP) — A San Francisco man who created the underground drug-selling website Silk Road was sentenced Friday to life in prison by a judge who cited six deaths from drugs bought on his site and five people he tried to have killed.

U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest told 31-year-old Ross Ulbricht he was a criminal even though he doesn't fit the typical profile — he has two collegiate degrees — and she brushed aside his efforts to characterize the business as merely a big mistake.

"It was a carefully planned life's work. It was your opus," she said. "You are no better a person than any other drug dealer."
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Ulbricht's 2013 arrest shut down what prosecutors described as an unprecedented one-stop online shopping mall where the supply of drugs was virtually limitless, enabling nearly 4,000 drug dealers to expand their markets from the sidewalk to cyberspace, selling drugs on a never-before-seen scale to more than 100,000 buyers in markets stretching from Argentina to Australia, from the United States to Ukraine.

The government said in court papers that Ulbricht left a blueprint that others have followed by establishing new "dark markets" in sophisticated spaces of the Internet that are hard to trace, where an even broader range of illicit goods are sold than were available on Silk Road.

Forrest said the sentence could show copycats there are "very serious consequences." She also ordered $183 million forfeiture. Prosecutors had not asked for a life sentence, saying only they wanted substantially more than the 20-year mandatory minimum.

Ulbricht was convicted in February of operating the site for nearly three years from 2011 until 2013.

Prosecutors say he collected $18 million in bitcoins through commissions on a website containing thousands of listings under categories like "Cannabis," ''Psychedelics" and "Stimulants." They said he brokered more than 1 million drug deals worth over $183 million while he operated on the site under the alias Dread Pirate Roberts — a reference to the swashbuckling character in "The Princess Bride."

The judge said Ulbricht's efforts to arrange the murders of five people he deemed as threats to his business was proof that Silk Road had not become the "world without restrictions, of ultimate freedom" that he claimed he sought. Ulbricht also is charged in Baltimore federal court in an attempted murder-for-hire scheme.

"You were captain of the ship, Dread Pirate Roberts," Forrest said. "It was a world with laws you created. ... It was a place with a lot of rules. If you broke the rules, you'd have all kinds of things done to you."

Prosecutors cited at least five deaths traced to overdoses from drugs bought on Silk Road, and two parents who lost sons spoke in court.

Before the sentence was announced, a sniffling and apologetic Ulbricht told Forrest he's a changed man who is not greedy or vain by nature.

"I've essentially ruined my life and broken the hearts of every member of my family and my closest friends," he said. "I'm not a self-centered sociopathic person that was trying to express some inner badness. I do love freedom. It's been devastating to lose it."

His lawyer, Joshua Dratel, said he was "disappointed tremendously" by the sentence.

Outside court, Ulbricht's mother, Lyn, called the war on drugs a failure and said two of the victims in the case died during the four months that authorities investigated but did not shut down the website.

His hands folded before him, Ulbricht was stoic as the sentence was announced. As he left the courtroom, he carried with him photographs of those who died as a result of drugs purchased on Silk Road.

 

[dmbrhs]

Trotting out the parents of kids who died after buying drugs on there is really bogus. Silk Road didn't cause their deaths. Their drugs habits did. They were doomed regardless of where they came from.

 

[chi based]

he had them computers putin

Repped

 

[airedweezy]

He goofed once he started sending out hits

 

[Chopper]

War on Drugs 

 

 

[rook]

His lawyer stinks.