‘Discount Bitcoin Bandits’ Charged in Los Angeles for Theft

The Los Angeles County lead prosecutor has accused several taking a large number of dollars from individuals who looked to buy digital currency, the head prosecutor's office reported on its site.

'Rebate Bitcoin Bandits' Charged with Second-Degree Robbery

Experts initially accused Precious Lanay Fitzgerald of four tallies of second-degree burglary, two checks of youngster mishandle and one tally of terrific robbery on March 19. An altered objection recorded yesterday incorporates two new charges of great burglary, kid mishandle and earlier conviction assertions.

Experts charged Lawillie Joshua Hall March 19 with two tallies of second-degree theft. The litigants, named the "Markdown Bitcoin Bandits," likewise confront firearm assertions, and the charges incorporate earlier conviction claims against Fitzgerald.

A preparatory hearing on the altered protest has been planned for Wednesday at the Foltz Criminal Justice Center. Prosecutors are suggesting safeguard at $570,000 for Fitzgerald and $200,000 for Hall. The match supposedly stole $87,125 from six people from October to February by utilizing on the web sees promoting markdown bitcoins available to be purchased, at that point taking the cash conveyed to make installments.

Fitzgerald has been blamed for getting a cash exchange from one casualty yet never giving the guaranteed bitcoin. In different occasions, she supposedly met the imminent purchasers face to face and strongly got the money they had brought. Corridor supposedly utilized a handgun and helped Fitzgerald in no less than two wrongdoings. Amid a portion of the thefts, a baby was purportedly present.

Blamed Has Prior Offense

This isn't the first occasion when that Fitzgerald has crossed paths with the law. She was indicted in March 2010 for strike with a lethal weapon notwithstanding a case including a gun. She faces a conceivable greatest sentence of 29 years and year and a half in prison if indicted, while Hall faces as much as 19 years and four months.

John C. Weller, delegate head prosecutor for the digital wrongdoing division, is arraigning the case, which stays under scrutiny by the Los Angeles Police Department's theft manslaughter division.