Núñez Ávila rushed to Cook’s house, where she found her son unresponsive in the garage. Paramedics transported the teenager to Marshall Hospital in Placerville, California, where he was pronounced dead.

In 2015, a federal judge in Manhattan sentenced Ulbricht to life in prison for drug trafficking, computer hacking and money laundering.

President Donald Trump has unconditionally pardoned Bitcoin pioneer and creator of dark web marketplace Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht. Fulfilling one of his many campaign promises, Trump announced the pardon in a Truth Social post Tuesday evening,

Until, of course, in 2013 the Silk Road was shut down by FBI agents and Mr Ulbricht, then 29 years old, was arrested in the science-fiction section of a San Francisco public library. In 2015, after a four-week trial,

The president granted the unconditional release of the online drug impresario as a favor to libertarians and cryptocurrency partisans.

Here we are, three days into the second Trump administration, and the president has already served up ample reminders of what his political reign is like:

In a move that has sparked debate, President Donald Trump granted a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the Silk Road dark web marketplace, who had been serving two life sentences plus 40 years for enabling the illegal trade of drugs and other illicit goods. People using his site traded in bitcoin to avoid detection.

Ross Ulbricht was convicted in 2015 for running a site on the dark web that sold drugs and other contraband items

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he had granted a pardon to Ross William Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road dark web marketplace.

Ulbricht was given two life sentences, plus 40 years for running a site that allegedly facilitated $183m in drug sales.

US President Donald Trump says he has signed a full and unconditional pardon for Ross Ulbricht, who operated Silk Road, the dark web marketplace where illegal drugs were sold. Ulbricht was convicted in 2015 in New York in a narcotics and money-laundering conspiracy and sentenced to life in prison.

Donald Trump has made good on his promise to pardon Ross Ulbricht, the founder of Silk Road, an underground website for selling drugs.