Crime and Fraud
12 Jailed Over Violent Cryptocurrency Robberies And Kidnaps
12 men have been jailed for their roles in a series of violent robberies where millions of dollars of Cryptocurrency was stolen.
Court documents show Remy Ra St Felix and his co-conspirators stole $3.5 million through sim swapping and a string of brutal raids on victims' homes.
Victims were held at gunpoint, assaulted and bound with plastic cable ties. St Felix was convicted in June and sentenced to 47 years in prison. He must pay $524,153.39 in restitution.
One of his co-conspirators, Jarod Gabriel Seemungal, 23, of West Palm Beach, and foreign co-conspirators stole cryptocurrency from victims’ accounts at exchanges. They were able to access the accounts by gaining control of the victims’ phone numbers through SIM swapping.
In 2022, Seemungal and his co-conspirators devised the home invasion scheme and recruited St Felix and others to assist with the crimes.
St Felix later became the leader of the home invasion crew.
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