Silk Road Drug Dealer Gets Prison as Dread Pirate Up Next
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A Dutch man described as the biggest drug dealer on Silk Road was ordered to serve 10 years in prison, a day before the mastermind of the illegal online marketplace is to learn his fate.
Cornelis Jan Slomp, 23, a software developer who used the moniker “SuperTrips” and sold cocaine, Ecstasy and LSD, was sentenced Thursday in Chicago after pleading guilty to drug trafficking. Prosecutors are seeking more than 20 years in prison for Ross William Ulbricht, found guilty by a jury of running Silk Road while using the online name “Dread Pirate Roberts,” when he appears before a Manhattan judge Friday.