Eric Halem, a former LAPD officer, was convicted of kidnapping and stealing $350,000 in bitcoin from a 17-year-old after posing as police to enter his apartment. He will be sentenced on 31 March, while his co‑defendants have not yet stood trial.

South Korean police have lost 22 Bitcoin—worth around $1.4 million—seized during a 2021 local exchange hack. The stolen funds remained undiscovered for four years, only coming to light during a nationwide audit prompted by another crypto disappearance.

A federal judge has dismissed xAI’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, ruling that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup failed to sufficiently link the company itself to alleged misconduct by former employees.

A cryptocurrency investment dispute in South Korea has spiraled into an attempted murder case after prosecutors accused a 39-year-old man of poisoning his business partner over an $811,000 Bitcoin loss.

A cryptocurrency trader has accused an ex-employee of Revolut of attempting to extort him by threatening to leak sensitive Know Your Customer (KYC) data — an incident that is now under investigation by law enforcement.

Human trafficking operations using cryptocurrency surged 85% in 2025, reaching hundreds of millions of dollars, with stablecoins like Tether and USDC widely used for large international payments. Traffickers use platforms like Telegram and scam compounds to coordinate forced labour and online scams, while blockchain transparency is helping authorities track and disrupt these networks.

Three teenagers from Sheffield have been sentenced to youth detention after orchestrating a brazen $4.3 million cryptocurrency robbery in London, only to lead the authorities to themselves by recording the who robbery on social media.

An alleged Bitcoin ransom demand has injected new urgency into the search for Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Today show anchor Savannah Guthrie, as authorities investigate what they now believe may be a targeted abduction rather than a routine missing-person case.

Russian authorities have placed Igor Runets, founder and CEO of BitRiver — one of the country’s largest Bitcoin mining companies — under house arrest as part of an investigation into alleged tax evasion, deepening the legal and financial challenges facing the firm.

U.S. Authorities have arrested former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding, bringing an end to a decade-long international manhunt and marking a turn of events of how an once elite athlete could turn into the mastermind of a large scale transnational crime syndicate.