ST. LOUIS – A St. Louis man appeared in federal court Monday to plead guilty to his role in a violent, high-stakes cryptocurrency scheme.
Prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut said 22-year-old Saif Faiq, 22, admitted helping plan an attempted robbery targeting Bitcoin, along with a kidnapping in Danbury, Connecticut, in August 2024.
Police arrested six men from Florida accused of carjacking a Lamborghini Urus and kidnapping two people who were inside. The investigation revealed the kidnapping victims are the parents of an individual who participated in the theft of hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin…