Three Tennessee men have been indicted on federal charges connected to a violent spree targeting cryptocurrency millionaires across San Francisco, the South Bay and Los Angeles, federal prosecutors announced Monday.
Elijah Armstrong, 21; Nino Chindavanh, 21 and Jayden Rucker, 25, are accused of traveling from Tennessee to California and posing as delivery workers to gain access to victims’ homes, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California.
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The indictment, filed March 31, alleges the men and other accomplices used firearms, duct tape and zip ties while trying to force victims to turn over access to cryptocurrency accounts.
In one incident, prosecutors said, a victim was forced at gunpoint to sign in to cryptocurrency accounts so a co-conspirator could transfer about $6.5 million to a wallet controlled by the group…