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End of 'Silk Road' as US Shuts Down Black Market Drug Website
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October 3, 2013
WASHINGTON - U.S. authorities have put an end to an online black market for illegal drugs known as "Silk Road."
The Federal Bureau of Investigation shut down the website and on Tuesday arrested its suspected mastermind - 29-year-old Ross William Ulbricht - in San Francisco, California.
In a criminal complaint filed in federal court in New York, FBI agent Christopher Tarbell called Silk Road "the most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the Internet today."