Overview

• Kirk West was arrested at Nashville International Airport on July 24 on felony theft charges and is held on a $1 million bond ahead of an October 23 hearing.
• Jones’s blockchain analyst recovered about 5 million of the stolen 5.5 million XRP using her wallet’s backup seed phrase.
• Law enforcement reports that over 483,000 XRP tokens remain missing and Nancy Jones alleges additional losses of Ethereum and Shiba Inu.
• Jones filed a restraining order and related civil claims seeking the return of her unrecovered assets and compensatory damages.
• The alleged theft also included $400,000 in cash from her safe, underscoring vulnerabilities in combined physical and digital asset security.