A man who created the underground drug-selling website Silk Road was sentenced to life in prison by a judge who cited six deaths from drugs bought on his site and five people he tried to have killed.

Two former federal agents are accused of using their positions and savvy computer skills to siphon more than $1 million in digital currency from the illegal black market Silk Road website.

A San Francisco man was swiftly convicted Wednesday on charges he created a multimillion-dollar marketplace for illegal drugs and other contraband on the Internet.