The Police Department in Los Angeles recovered $ 2.7 million of Bitcoin mining machines, which, he claims, was stolen by a criminal ring at an attack at the city airport.
Laond he said On April 22, detectives from the car theft unit, together with the city police, Union Pacific police, in turn and the police at the airport, arrested Oscar David Borrero-Manchol and Yonaiker Rafael Martinez-Ramos for theft.
The authorities claimed that the couple are “outstanding members” of the criminal ring in South America related to the theft and sale of stolen goods in Los Angeles and the surrounding area.
LAPD said that searching storage devices in the San Fernando Valley, northeast of the center of Los Angeles, recovered stolen goods worth $ 4 million, including Bitcoin (BTC) mining platforms downloaded from the international airport in Los Angeles, “because the shipping was to be loaded onto a plane directed to Hong Kong.”
Detectives also found and took over over $ 1.2 million in allegedly stolen tequila, clothing, shoes, speakers, coffee, body washing and feeding for animals.
Borrero-Manchola and Martinez-Mamos were reserved in the Van Nys prison in the northwest of the city. Borrero-Manchola was quoted for receiving a stolen property and was released while Martinez-Mamos was arrested on the basis of an order for the lack of a kal.
LAPD said that “the investigation remains in progress and additional arrests may occur.”
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LAPD did not share the number of intercepted machines or what model the platforms are, but a typical Bitcoin mining machine, the current Bitcoin model, from USD 3000 to over 5000 USD.
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In the past, law enforcement agencies have recovered stolen mining platforms. LAPD in July he said He arrested a man who, he claims, was in the possession of stolen mining platforms worth $ 579,000, grabbing them from a van and a warehouse.
One of the biggest thefts of Bitcoin mining platforms took place at the end of 2017 and 2018 in Iceland, where the group robbed data centers to make over 600 machines.
Apparently, the platforms were in China, just three months after their stolen, the Chinese authorities took a similar number and model of mining platforms in Tianjin, a city southeast of the capital in Beijing.
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