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2024-03-27 19:03:39 UTC - HELPFUL
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Thirty-one year-old Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison in 2015. He ran the dark-web website "Silk Road" (a marketplace for illegal drugs and other services): https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/ross-ulbricht-creator-and-owner-silk-road-website-found-guilty-manhattan-federal-court A seventeen year-old died from drugs bought on the "Silk Road" website: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/teenager-patrick-mcmullen-who-died-while-on-skype-had-bought-drugs-from-silk-road-8942329.html A sixteen year-old died as well https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-30/father-blames-silk-road-creator-for-sons-drug-death/6509262
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