The Arrest of Silk Road's Mastermind: Ambush in a Library Corner

Silk Road, the world's largest online marketplace for drugs and other illegal goods, was largely shrouded in secrecy until Wednesday, when the FBI announced the arrest of the site's alleged administrator, Ross William Ulbricht, who went by the name of "Dread Pirate Roberts."

Many unanswered questions surrounding the case remain, but details of Ulbricht's arrest are starting to surface. The feds took him into custody on Tuesday at 3:15 p.m PT, while he was in the science fiction section of the Glen Park branch of the San Francisco Public Library. "Six to eight agents" in plain clothes came quietly into the library, one by one, sitting down around him, according to library spokesperson Michelle Jeffers, who says the agents didn't catch the staff's attention, they did not perceive them as anything other than library users." Read more...