Cyber criminal caught in net

The tranquility of Glen Park public library, in San Francisco, was disrupted last week by half a dozen FBI agents descending on the science-fiction section, where nerds congregate to read their emails on the free Wi-Fi.

The agents surrounded, then arrested, a 29-year-old man who had been working on his laptop.

The FBI say the man, Ross William Ulbricht, is an international drug smuggler known online as Dread Pirate Roberts. They say he is responsible for Silk Road, an ingenious, online illicit marketplace known as ‘the Amazon.com of illegal drugs.’