Silk Road Trial: Prosecutors Paint Ross Ulbricht As 21st Century Pablo Escobar

NEW YORK -- The trial of Ross Ulbricht, co-founder of the online drug bazaar Silk Road, began Tuesday with prosecutors painting a portrait of the gangly Texas native dressed in a blue blazer and white pants as a 21st Centure equivalent of Pablo Escobar. Only instead of ravaging rural South America, he led a double life that consisted of connecting drug dealers with customers from all over the world, effectively created the criminal equivalent of Amazon or eBay, they claimed.