Story of two corrupt DEA agents: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/stealing-bitcoins-with-badges-how-silk-roads-dirty-cops-got-caught/
Curtis Green , Carl Force.
Force said he’d do the job for $80,000 in bitcoins, half payable up front. DPR agreed. On Saturday, February 16, 2013, with his wife taking the pictures, Green staged his own death
—replete with Campbell’s Chicken and Stars soup to simulate vomit. He was face down on his bathroom floor, his eyes half open. When DPR got the pictures of Green's
fake dead body, he replied that he was "a little disturbed, but I’m ok... I’m new to this kind of thing." The kingpin said he didn’t "think I’ve done the wrong thing," and
so basically two corrupt DEA agents extorted BTC from the SilkRoad website administrator, and faked a death. However #rossulbricht played along with the game. Hence he had intent to
Here is the unsupported jump in your argument. You assume DPR and Ross Ulbricht are one and the same. This wasn’t proven & there is evidence otherwise:
murder. Which is really bad enough. Maybe not life in prison worthy, but still worth 10-15 years at least imo. I mean would you want this kind of person out in the streets?