Four suspects charged in home invasion of streamer Amouranth

Four suspects were charged successful transportation with the location penetration of online streamer Amouranth, whose existent sanction is Kaitlyn Siragusa. The streamer says she was held astatine gunpoint by respective individuals demanding that she manus implicit the backstage keys to her crypto.

According to Fox 26, the suspects see Dylan Nesho Campbell, Bryan Anthony Salazar Guerrero and 2 further suspects betwixt the ages of 16-17.

Campbell and Guerrero were each charged with aggravated kidnapping and aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon, arsenic was the 17-year-old suspect.

Siragusa reported that several equipped individuals entered her home precocious astatine nighttime connected March 2, bushed her, and held her astatine gunpoint, demanding her cryptocurrency.

Source: Amouranth

Luckily, her hubby was connected speakerphone, which the gunmen took successful an effort to entree a crypto app. The husband, having been alerted to the situation, grabbed a handgun portion attempting to gauge wherever the equipped men were successful the home.

The online streamer led the assailants astir the location and convinced them to commencement looking for a acold retention device.

As the equipped robbers were looking for the device, Siragusa ran upstairs to her husband, who was besides watching the concern unfold connected the home's web of cameras.

Once she was safely upstairs, her hubby fired disconnected 3 rounds astatine assailants, apt shooting 1 successful the process earlier the location invaders retreated and instrumentality enforcement arrived astatine the scene.

Siragusa’s hubby aboriginal revealed that helium was the 1 posting from her relationship arsenic the incidental unfolded. Source: Amouranth

The streamer antecedently disclosed that she held astir 211 Bitcoin, worthy implicit $20 cardinal successful November 2024, to online followers — making her a people for equipped robbery.

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Crypto kidnappings and extortion connected the emergence

The incidental is simply the latest successful a drawstring of kidnappings and equipped robberies aimed astatine crypto holders.

In January 2025, a UK tribunal sentenced 7 pack members for the kidnapping and extortion of a crypto investor, who was repeatedly assaulted and coerced into handing implicit funds implicit respective months.

During that aforesaid month, reports emerged that Ledger co-founder David Balland was kidnapped successful France and held for a crypto ransom earlier being rescued by instrumentality enforcement.

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