Overview
- A gunman posing as a delivery worker entered a Mission Dolores home around 6:45 a.m., tied the resident with duct tape, and took a phone, a laptop, and cryptocurrency valued at about $11 million, according to a police report.
- Authorities have not said whether the San Francisco victim was injured or whether any arrests have been made.
- The incident fits a pattern of criminals targeting digital assets by seizing devices and forcing access to wallets.
- In Los Angeles, prosecutors charged Gabby Ben and former LAPD officer Eric Halem with kidnapping a teenage cryptocurrency operator and threatening to shoot and waterboard him before obtaining access to a wallet holding $350,000.
- Both Los Angeles defendants pleaded not guilty, were denied bail, and remain in custody awaiting trial.