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For years, the arrest and case has been kept under-wraps. Friday, a court sentenced Thomas White to 5 years and 4 months for his role in running a huge dark web drug marketplace.

I am 90 percent sure this was a plotline in Boardwalk Empire?

On the trail of the man believed to be Variety Jones, one of the architects of the defunct drug marketplace Silk Road.

It was supposed to pull people into the Silk Road ecosystem.

Digging through the email account of Variety Jones.

In a new video, the mother of convicted Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht talks about the drug war, the media, and Ross’s life in prison.

The fall of Silk Road hasn't deterred anyone, he says.

Ross Ulbricht could get life in prison for running the site.

The group fought against the Ukrainian Army until their commander was thrown in jail in November by the Donetsk People's Republic, the Russian-aligned government he was fighting alongside.

Did a DEA agent accused of acting as a mole on Silk Road also play double agent on its successor?

Several years of entries recounting the creation and rise of the underground drug market were entered into evidence today.

VICE News follows the chaotic birth of the DPR as it tries to forge a path to independence and closer ties to Russia.