Three teenagers were accused of kidnapping a man from the muzzle after returning from the encryption event of Las Vegas, drove him for an hour outside the city and robbed $ 4 million and swearing.
According to the police, the incident occurred in November. The victim hosted a cryptocurrency -related event in downtown Las Vegas, and when he returned home, the suspect took him to the car and took him to the desert area, far from the city.
According to a May 10 report on the Las Vegas Local News 8 News, they forced them to hand over his account.
According to the report, the man says, “I want to see another day.”
It was also claimed that he could communicate with three young people through the phone call during the incident, and the victims were able to listen to the speaker phone.
After producing $ 4 million of accounts from Crypto and NFTS, the victim was able to walk five miles through the desert and arrive at the gas station to help a friend.
Two 16 -year -old Florida are faced with charges, including robbery, kidnapping and robbery. The prosecution left the third teenager, who was involved in the conspiracy, the prosecution said.
One of the young men is behind a bar with $ 4 million, and the other is released as an electronic monitoring. The preliminary hearing is scheduled for June, and both teenagers are expected to be tried as adults.
Sasha Hodder, a digital asset lawyer, in the X post on May 10, the incident shows how encryption theft evolves.
The rise of a thief targeting the creepto industry offline
Participants in the encryption industry are becoming more and more abducted and robbed. In the last May 3 case, the father of the crypto entrepreneur was liberated by the police in Paris, France, and was held for several days in connection with the kidnapping of 7 million euros ($ 7.8 million).
In February, the British encryption broker did not touch 30,000 euros ($ 30,917) from the balcony and avoided the kidnapper who threatened torture and killed him.
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Meanwhile, Jameson Lopp, a self -use company CASA, has created a list of dozens of offline encryption strengths in GitHub.
The first goes back to 2014. Someone is a computer scientist and encryption writer HAL FINNEY dates back until he tried to hit the $ 400,000 BTC (Bitcoin).
According to the list of LOPP, 21 cases have occurred until this year. There were 28 cases in 2024, 17 in 2023 and 32 in 2021.
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