Thirty-one-year-old behind illegal online drug emporium handed five sentences – including two for life – to be served concurrently with no chance of parole. Ross Ulbricht, the man behind illegal online drug emporium Silk Road, was sentenced to life in...

A California man has been arrested and charged with operating an online marketplace created to be a successor to the original Silk Road website, a black market for drug sales and other illegal activity that used Bitcoins. Silk Road 2.0 was formed last...