Hi, I'm Ryan Levy.

Hi, I'm Ryan Levy.

Hi, I'm Ryan Levy.

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At the time of his arrest, Ross Albricht was 29 years old and living in San Francisco.

An all-around great guide his prison mates said.

He got along with everybody. A former Boy Scout and

outdoors enthusiast he was a big fan of Dungeons and Dragons yoga, recreational

drugs and meditation.

An avid libertarian that preached free market

and wrote essays about minimizing state regulation of individual liberties.

Always the smartest guy in the room.

When Ross was bent and handcuffed over a desk at the Glen Park Public Library,

his arrest warrant stated that he was being charged with seven counts of money laundering, computer hacking, trafficking narcotics, and continuing a criminal enterprise, also known as the Kingpin Charge, a charge usually a That is because 29 year old Ross Albrecht at the time of his arrest was the world's biggest online drug vendor.

His $1.2 billion dollars Dark Web operation was called the Silk Road, and it will go down in history as

the first major Darknet market. Born in Austin, Austin, Texas to Kirk and Lynn and brother to Cali, Ross showed high levels of intellectual and emotional intelligence from an early age.

A very easy kid to raise, his mother said in one of the many interviews she gave sends his incarceration.

He had a thing with testing his limits, like showering with cold water for a month or living

off rice for a week. His college girlfriend said that when she first visited the dank basement where he was living, it only had a mattress and two garbage bags, one for clean clothes, the other for laundry.

After graduating from the University of Texas with a bachelor's in physics, Ross moved to Penn State to study an advanced degree in materials, science, and engineering.

When he didn't pass the entrance exam for a PhD program, he went back home to Austin and moved in with his then girlfriend.

Back in his hometown, 25 years old Ross was unclear as to how to proceed.

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