Until, of course, in 2013 the Silk Road was shut down by FBI agents and Mr Ulbricht, then 29 years old, was arrested in the science-fiction section of a San Francisco public library. In 2015, after a four-week trial,

President Donald Trump issued a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who ran the dark web marketplace Silk Road under the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts.” Ulbricht has been serving a life sentence without parole since 2015,

President Trump is expected to issue a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, founder of the notorious dark web site Silk Road, The Post has learned. A source close to the White House said at midday Tuesday that the Ulbricht pardon was “incoming.