One Mistake Took Down a 29-Yr-Old Dark Web Drug Lord

Do you agree with the judge's sentence? CORRECTIONS: Ulbricht attended the University of Texas at Dallas, not Austin. He was born on March 27, not March 17. If you enjoyed this video, check out my latest video on how the world's greatest hacker manipulated everyone: https://youtu.be/aLUDhbQojxA

So basically after years of dea and fbi investigations an irs agent found him by googling him. I feel like that should be a major moral to the story.

It's crazy to think that former government employees can get like 6 years in prison for stealing literally from the government, and people who sell crack, even small can get life.

DEA: how dare he sell more drugs than us! Book him.

It's really wonderful to come across people who freely share valuable information online. You never know what kind of knowledge you might stumble upon that could have a lasting impact on your life.

What is sad is drug dealers spend more time in prison for selling to adults who choose to buy this crap then a pedophile, who forces himself upon a child and destroys his or her identity and worth. It literally makes me sick

What did we learn from this? Be an FBI agent when you commit crimes because you can avoid a shit ton of jail time.

Amazing how he turned his life around, changed his name and became one of Hollywood’s A-list actors. Respect Robert Pattinson

To everyone wondering why he got such a harsh sentence, there are three reasons. 1. The judge said she wanted to make an example out of him as a deterrent against others 2. The murder-for-hire charges were dropped, but judges can and in this case did, consider uncharged allegations in your sentence as aggravating factors 3. He was offered a plea deal, but turned it down and took his chances at trial (The feds have a 95% or higher conviction rate). If you do that, they always throw the book at you and pursue the maximum possible sentence. I’m not justifying it, just explaining the reasons.

That judgement was too harsh. Even murderers get out of prison quickly and giving interviews on how they commited that murder.

His sentence is crazy considering that someone who killed 2 people while drunk driving only got 14 years

A friend told me, during the Silk Road era, he could finally relax about his drug habit since the negative pressure to go to his street dealer was off his shoulders, when he placed his orders online. He was guaranteed quality products with online vendors whom he'd made "friends" with. Then somehow, the ease of which he could buy, turned off his switch of need to a disdain towards drugs. It was "too much of a good thing". He cold turkey-ed his habit realizing he was motivated to use through the process of enabling anxiety to get to his dealer, thus realising he had been addicted to the excitement of "the buy". He got out of it in the end all thanks to SR.

Never challenge a government to a fight on who is the best drug dealer .

Ulbrict should've become a cop first. That way he would've gotten a more lenient sentence.

i actually thought his plea to the judge to be released in old age was really beautifully written. edit: i see so many people arguing in the responses to my comment that he deserves to rot in jail. my comment wasn't pro or con on that. i was just admiring the aesthetics of his poetry.

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I started doing drugs since my teenage. Got addicted to heroin. Heroin addiction actually destroyed my life. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Not until my mom recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Never thought I would be saying this about mushrooms.

The judge admitted her main motivation was to prevent ‘disruption to the social fabric’, rather than justice. Says it all.

It's insane that he got two life sentences for essentially making a deep web ebay.

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