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Three men charged in $2M cryptocurrency kidnapping and robbery (New York)
NY Daily News ^ | 6-12-18 | SHAYNA JACOBS and JANON FISHER

Posted on 06/16/2018 6:04:15 PM PDT by dynachrome

MEMBERS OF a Bronx biker gang, one sporting a skull tattoo, kidnapped a friend and robbed him of nearly $2 million in cryptocurrency, Manhattan prosecutors charged Tuesday.

Cesar (Fuego) Guzman, 38, a paraprofessional with the Department of Education, Allan (Joker) Nunez, 36, and Darrell (Bishop) Colon, 37, joined Louis Meza, 35, to lure the cyber-millionaire victim into a minivan posing as a livery car on Nov. 4, 2017.

Nunez drove the victim around for two hours at gunpoint until he coughed up the location of his 24-word passphrase. Meza, who was caught on surveillance camera, and Guzman, whose head is inked with tribal tats, broke into victim’s apartment where they nabbed his digital wallet and stole $1.8 million

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: cryptocurrency; newyork; robbery
Cashed it at Wells Fargo? bizarre
1 posted on 06/16/2018 6:04:15 PM PDT by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome
kidnapped a friend and robbed him...

Nice friends!

2 posted on 06/16/2018 6:09:24 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (This Space for Rent)
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To: dynachrome

Alright, I realize this is NYC, but a tattooed musclehead working for the Education Department...how does THAT happen??? And where are they REALLY from? (I’m guessing about 3,000 miles south of NYC/s;)


3 posted on 06/16/2018 6:13:27 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: dynachrome

Did they just let the friend go and think he wouldn’t report the incident?


4 posted on 06/16/2018 6:15:00 PM PDT by CaptainK ("no collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker")
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To: CaptainK

Fear of the IRS?


5 posted on 06/16/2018 6:17:51 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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To: dynachrome

The dumb-ass “victim” must have bragged to his gangbanger friends that he had the crypto currency. That’s almost worse than revealing to folks that you have a million dollars in gold coins at your house. STUPID!


6 posted on 06/16/2018 6:19:09 PM PDT by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: Frank_2001
The Bronx is its own special subset of NYC where mostly all defendants are found not guilty.

So it makes sense that a violent biker can be employed as a “paraprofessional” in the Education Department and get character references, from politically connected people, as a pillar of the community.

7 posted on 06/16/2018 6:19:47 PM PDT by CaptainK ("no collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker")
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To: House Atreides
I have a million dollars in gold coins at my mansion, 2446 Belmont rd., NW Washington DC.

obozo's address in DC

8 posted on 06/16/2018 6:22:37 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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I have a million dollars in gold coins at my mansion, 2446 Belmont rd., NW Washington DC.

"I also have a sack of precious gems the Saudi's gave me - remember when I bowed in thanks? And several extra billion in cash on pallets leftover from the Iranians. Funny nobody has asked where I got all that cash!"

9 posted on 06/16/2018 7:09:15 PM PDT by FatherofFive (deIslam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: dynachrome

Governemnt officials, right?


10 posted on 06/16/2018 7:14:13 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: FatherofFive

LOL


11 posted on 06/16/2018 7:14:19 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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Even worse:

Nunez’s attorney told the judge that City Councilman Ritchie Torres penned a letter on his client’s behalf attesting to his good character and the charity work he does for his community in the Bronx.

No doubt his tribal tattoos are overlooked because they are a "tribal" thing you know.

Guzman’s attorney said that in addition to working for the Education Department, his client attends night classes at Lehman College.

There you go, an upstanding young man who strayed into armed robbery merely to provide charity to the community, while bettering himself as well.

If he can prove he is here illegally, I'm sure the case will be dismissed.

12 posted on 06/16/2018 7:24:23 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: FatherofFive

#9. I don’t think Obama was “bowing” to the Saudi sheik. It might have been something else. /sarc, but maybe not!


13 posted on 06/16/2018 7:57:19 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: dynachrome

one sporting a skull tattoo! ooooooooooooo they must mean business.


14 posted on 06/17/2018 3:27:38 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: dynachrome

fools they — it dropped to at least a third of its value since


15 posted on 06/17/2018 3:44:54 PM PDT by elbook
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