The alleged founder of drug trafficking site Silk Road paid an undercover federal agent $80,000 to have a former employee tortured and killed, federal prosecutors charged today. Ross William Ulbricht, a 29-year-old software engineer, is also accused of ordering another murder - this one for $150,000. The FBI shut down the site on Wednesday after infiltrating it. The so-called Deep Web or Dark Web site allegedly worked as an eBay for the black market - selling cocaine and marijuana, drugs, credit card numbers, instructions on how to hack an ATM and other illegal goods. Criminal network: Ross William Ulbricht, 29, has been arrested in San Francisco over the alleged drug-dealing activities of his website Silk Road
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Silk Road owner, Ross William Ulbricht, 29, known online as 'Dread Pirate Roberts,' was arrested in San Francisco on Tuesday
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Ulbricht, known online as 'Dread Pirate Roberts', has advanced degree in chemical engineering
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Hundreds of kilos of illegal drugs being sold by a network of thousands of drug dealers
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'The most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the Internet today,' FBI said
Ross William Ulbricht
Ross William Ulbricht
Ross William Ulbricht
Dread Pirate Roberts
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Dread Pirate Roberts
According to the complaint, Ulbricht, who shortened his alias from Dread Pirate Roberts to @placeholder when posting on Silk Road's forums, operated the site from San Francisco.