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Eric Eoin Marques, a dual citizen of Ireland and the United States, was extradited to America as he faces federal charges in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt of distributing child pornography.

The obituary about Lyndon LaRouche was not accurate and painted him in too positive of a light.

A 34-year-old man has admitted in federal court to manufacturing thousands of knock-off Xanax pills in the basement of his parents’ Sparks home, and selling them for millions of dollars on a dark corner of the internet. He called himself “Xanaxman.”

Federal authorities say Ryan Farace ran a secret online business from homes in Baltimore County peddling millions of dollars worth of fake Xanax pills.

Here are some details about the prosecutors and the key defense lawyers representing the six Baltimore Police officers charged in the Freddie Gray case.

Details of the plea agreement between the government and Carl Force of Baltimore, Maryland, were not disclosed in court documents filed this week. A call to Force's attorney, Ivan Bates, was not immediately returned.

A former Secret Service agent will plead guilty to charges connected with the theft of electronic currency during a high-profile investigation into online drug bazaar Silk Road, federal prosecutors said.

A federal judge on Thursday ordered a former Drug Enforcement Administration agent charged with enriching himself while investigating an online drug marketplace to be detained pending trial, after prosecutors called him a flight risk and danger to the community.

Jacob Theodore George IV, 33, sold heroin through online marketplace

Baltimore startup Bitsie is seeking to boost uptake of digital currency bitcoin, beyond local businesses like bar Bad Decisions.

Inside a drab computer lab at the Johns Hopkins University, a team of researchers is trying to build something that has never existed before: a digital currency that changes hands completely in secret. Its name is Zerocoin.

As details continue to emerge about the two year-investigation into Ross William Ulbricht, an unassuming 29-year-old and alleged founder of the massive online drug market Silk Road, one important piece of information remains cloaked in shadow: How did the FBI find the organization's servers?

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine doctor Alexandra Gold has been suspended after she was accused of helping a roommate sell pills.

A federal judge in Manhattan denied bail to Ross Ulbricht after federal prosecutors alleged that he ordered the murders of six people this year to protect his position as the operator of the sprawling online drug market Silk Road.

The new accusations come as the U.S. Attorney's Office in New York prepares to argue before a judge this morning that Ulbricht should be denied bail.

As they rushed toward a suburban Utah home with guns drawn, agents knew they were on to a significant figure in the Silk Road online drug bazaar — a major cocaine dealer, perhaps.

An administrator with wide ranging access to the supposedly secret transactions on the Silk Road online market pleaded guilty to a drug charge Thursday after being caught in a federal sting in January.

Jacob T. George IV, 32, sold heroin and methylone using online market

Maryland man charged in Silk Road drug marketplace case

The end came quickly for Silk Road, when federal agents crept in to nab the alleged kingpin of the secret $1.2 billion online drug marketplace as he sat at his laptop in the sci-fi section of a San Francisco public library.