The Los Angeles Police Department has recovered $ 2.7 million worth of bitcoin mining machines allegedly stolen by a crime ring at a city airport.
The lapd Says On April 22, detectives from its cargo theft unit, along with the city port police, police based on the Pacific Police railroad, and the city airport police, arrested Oscar David Borrero-Manchola and Yonaiker Rafael Martinez-Ramos.
Authorities have announced that the pair is “well -known members” of a crime ring in South America tied to theft and sale of stolen goods inside and around Los Angeles.
LAPD said the searches of storage unit facilities in San Fernando Valley, northern -east of the town of Los Angeles, recovered $ 4 million worth of stolen goods, including Bitcoin (Btc) Mining Rigs Taken from Los Angeles International Airport “as the shipment is about to be uploaded to a plane heading to Hong Kong.”
Detectives also found and kidnapped more than $ 1.2 million in allegedly stolen tequila, clothing, shoes, speakers, coffee, body washing, and pet food.
Borrero-Manchola and Martinez-Ramos were booked at the Van Nuys Jail in the city’s Northwest. Borrero-Manchola has been mentioned for receiving stolen property and released, while Martinez-Ramos has been arrested in a bail warrant.
LAPD said “the investigation remains ongoing, and further arrests can be followed.”
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LAPD does not share the number of machines it has acquired or what model rigs, but a typical, current Bitcoin model Mining machine Sells between $ 3,000 to over $ 5,000.
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US law enforcement has recovered stolen crypto mining rigs in the past. In July, the lapd Says It arrested a man who allegedly owned the stolen Bitcoin mining rigs of $ 579,000, taking them from a cargo van and storage unit.
One of the largest robbery of Bitcoin mining rigs occurred in late 2017 and early 2018 in Iceland, where a group steals data centers to be with More than 600 machines.
Rigs were reported to have ended in China, as just three months after they were stolen, the Chinese authorities took a similar number and model of mining rigs in Tianjin, a city in the south -east of capital, Beijing.
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