Dread Pirate Roberts and the Silk Road

Everyone was far too focused on the IP address linking Dread Pirate Robert to San Francisco. Gary went over their heads when he got ignored by everyone at the FBI and he went straight to his supervisor. Luckily his boss had the sense to get Gary on a call with the DEA, Homeland Security, and again the FBI. But again nobody particularly cared about what Gary had to say. They'd never heard of anyone on the Silk Road posting under the name Altoid or someone called Ross Ulbrich. Unless the FBI caught Ulbrich actually logged in to Silk Road, it would be impossible to prove that he was Dread Pirate Roberts. Anything that physically connected Ulbrich to the Silk Road would be