Las Vegas (ClassThree teenagers were accused of kidnapping a man at gunpoint, and they led him to a remote desert area for an hour outside Las Vegas, and theft of $ 4 million of cryptocurrencies and other digital assets, according to the eight researchers now.
Bilal Ashraf and Austin Fletcher, both of them 16 and from the Bassco County, Florida; The records said that a third teenager concerns the face, including theft, kidnapping and extortion. The juvenile court judge, Ashraf and Fletcher as an adult.
A public prosecutor said during the Fletcher session, which was a teenager who was no longer in the United States. Prosecutors said that men are accused of stealing $ 4 million in cryptocurrency and inappropriate symbols (NFTS).
Last November, a police man contacted that three young men kidnapped him under the threat of weapons, led him to a remote desert area, and stole millions of dollars from him, he said.
That night, the victim was hosting an event associated with the cryptocurrency in a company in downtown Las Vegas, the police said. Then the victim returned to his apartment complex and stopped his car. The police said that the three suspects approached him and forced him into the back seat of their car.
“[The victim] He said: “He possessed whether he complied, he will live to see another day, and if he did not comply, they had his father and killing him.”[The victim] He put a towel on his head and the suspects told her not to look at them. “
The police said that the youth demanded the words of the victim’s traffic and threatened him to reach his financial accounts. It also seems that another person was talking directly to the youth through a phone call, which the victim could hear through the amplifier.
The police suspect that the three youths drove the victim across the Nevada border to White Hills, Arizona – more than 70 miles and one hour by car from Las Vegas. The documents said that the victim walked five miles alone in the desert to reach a gas station, where he called a friend to capture him.
The metro investigators later follow a possible suspicious vehicle traveling from Florida to Nevada, specifically, including the victim’s apartment sites. Police said a gun that includes a member of the suspect’s family consistent with one of the features of the teenager social media, in a separate vehicle in Mississippi, the police said.
Police said the three teenagers participated in the turmoil together in a high school in Florida.
In one report last summer, the young men were reported that they are entering in English and Arabic, and [Ashraf] It has been observed that the shoulder is checking a school resource employee, “and screaming in an assistant manager.
During the Friday session, the General defender of Fletcher arrested her client to the house arrest. Las Vegas Justice Judge Daniel Westmamire registered on bail at $ 4 million.
During a Tuesday session in the Ashraf case, his lawyer, Ross Godman, arrested his client to serve house arrest. The records said that the Las Vegas court judge had ordered the release of Ashraf with electronic monitoring.
A preliminary hearing for June was scheduled. Documents said that the FBI helped the investigation.