As for Ulbricht's eventual arrest in a San Francisco public library in October 2013, Dratel said it was all a setup, where Ulbricht had been tricked into being "in that library that day to take the fall for the people operating the website."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/14/ross_ulbricht_trial_day_1/Lol. Is this the best they could come up with?
Assistant US Attorney Timothy Howard, on the other hand, argued that this was all nonsense and that Ulbricht had been "caught red handed." At the time of his arrest, Howard said, Ulbricht was actively communicating online as Dread Pirate Roberts with a member of Silk Road's support staff – who just happened to be an undercover FBI agent.