Ba người đàn ông ở Missouri bị truy tố vì âm mưu cướp bitcoin

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut has indicted three men from St. Louis, Missouri—Sedric Louis (32), John Davis (34), and Martel Williams (27)—on charges of conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery, carrying a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. The three are accused of being hired by an orchestrator in August 2024 to travel to Connecticut to track and attempt to kidnap an individual and their parents, who were involved in the theft of hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin, in order to coerce the transfer of cryptocurrency. The trio fled the scene due to concerns about being captured on surveillance cameras, after which another group from Florida took over and carried out the actual kidnapping. All three have appeared in court and pleaded not guilty.