Posted on 05/10/2025 2:24:20 PM PDT by DFG
Three teenagers allegedly kidnapped a wealthy man at gunpoint and drove him to a remote Arizona desert to steal $4 million in cryptocurrency in a sinister plot.
Austin Fletcher and Belal Ashraf, both 16 and from Pasco County, Florida, allegedly teamed up with a third, as-yet-unidentified teenager to target the victim, who has remained anonymous.
Prosecutors said at Fletcher's probable cause hearing on Friday that the third teenager is no longer in the United States. It is not clear if authorities know where they are or if they plan to extradite them.
A juvenile court judge ruled that Ashraf and Fletcher will face charges as adults, including robbery, kidnapping, and extortion.
The horror robbery allegedly unfolded last November when the man told police that he had been forced into a car at gunpoint before being driven to the White Hills area, around an hour outside Las Vegas.
The victim said he had been hosting a cryptocurrency event in downtown Las Vegas that evening, and was ambushed by the three teens when he returned to his apartment complex.
Court records cited by 8NewsNow showed that the teenagers allegedly wrapped a towel around the man's head and 'told him not to look at them', and warned him that 'if he did not comply, they had his dad and would kill him.'
They told him that if he complied and handed over his digital assets, he 'would live to see another day.'
After driving the man out into the desert, the three teens allegedly demanded his banking passwords and threatened to murder him if he refused.
Prosecutors added in their filings that the teenagers appeared to be on the phone with another person during the ordeal, which the victim said he could hear through speakerphone.
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Code word, “teenagers”.
Hardly *children*.
They’re teens , old enough to know better, not 8 year olds.
Frankly, I’m surprised they let him live. If I were him, I’d figure I was dead anyways, cause there was no reason to let him live once they had that info and he couldn’t rat them out.
Belal Ashraf? Aptly named, certainly.
Belial. Son of Belial.
Named 17 times in the Bible.
Webster’s: BE’LIAL, n. As a noun, unprofitableness; wickedness. As an adjective, worthless; wicked. In a collective sense, wicked men. “.
A juvenile court judge ruled that Ashraf and Fletcher will face charges as adults,
I suspect the third person was the “brains” behind the whole thing and meant to leave the other two holding the bag all along.
I wonder how they found out that he had so much wealth...
We need to redefine “Juvenile” crime from the age of the perpetrators to the seriousness of the crime.
“Court records cited by 8NewsNow showed that the third, unidentified teenage suspect may have gone to high school with Fletcher and Ashraf in Florida and they were involved in ‘disturbances’ at the school.
In one such instance, the three teens ‘were reported as swearing in English and Arabic’, and Ashraf was ‘observed shoulder checking a school resource officer’ and screaming in the face of an assistant principal, records said”.
The rats we let into this country.
Article:
“he had been hosting a cryptocurrency event in downtown Las Vegas that evening”
They didn’t know he was wealthy—but made an educated guess based on the context.
One key element of personal security is anonymity and keeping a low profile.
Who is the 4th person they were speaking to on the phone? Bet it’s an adult they met online and he has all the bitcoin now.
Also bet this shadow person knows the victim in some way.
I knew the Biden grandkids were getting desperate now that their gravy train has been derailed but, man....
How did they get a gun? It’s illegal!
Those chillun nee killun.
I’m with you on this one.
They are not children. They are fully cognizant of the gravity of their actions.
In matters of right/wrong they know what they’re doing.
That should be taken into account when sentencing them.
They’ll use it all to buy crap on Temu. Easy bag.
Death
Instant
No BS
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