SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A bail hearing is set for Friday for a San Francisco man the FBI accuses of operating a website where users could shop anonymously for drugs like heroin and LSD.

Ross William Ulbricht, known online as Dread Pirate Roberts, is charged in New York as the mastermind of the encrypted website called Silk Road.

He's also charged in Maryland with arranging to pay someone to kill a witness.

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