{"id":125190,"date":"2025-03-16T22:16:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T22:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=125190"},"modified":"2025-03-16T22:16:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T22:16:03","slug":"four-suspects-charged-in-home-invasion-of-streamer-amouranth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=125190","title":{"rendered":"Four suspects charged in home invasion of streamer Amouranth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsFour suspects were charged in connection with the home invasion of online streamer Amouranth, whose real name is Kaitlyn Siragusa. The streamer says she was held at gunpoint by several individuals demanding that she hand over the private keys to her crypto.<br \/>\nAccording to Fox 26, the suspects include Dylan Nesho Campbell, Bryan Anthony Salazar Guerrero and two additional suspects between the ages of 16-17.<br \/>\nCampbell and Guerrero were each charged with aggravated kidnapping and aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon, as was the 17-year-old suspect.<br \/>\nSiragusa reported that several armed individuals entered her home late at night on March 2, beat her, and held her at gunpoint, demanding her cryptocurrency.<br \/>\nSource: AmouranthLuckily, her husband was on speakerphone, which the gunmen took in an attempt to access a crypto app. The husband, having been alerted to the situation, grabbed a handgun while attempting to gauge where the armed men were in the home.<br \/>\nThe online streamer led the assailants around the home and convinced them to start looking for a cold storage device.<br \/>\nAs the armed robbers were looking for the device, Siragusa ran upstairs to her husband, who was also watching the situation unfold on the home&#8217;s network of cameras.<br \/>\nOnce she was safely upstairs, her husband fired off three rounds at assailants, likely shooting one in the process before the home invaders retreated and law enforcement arrived at the scene.<br \/>\nSiragusa\u2019s husband later revealed that he was the one posting from her account as the incident unfolded. Source: AmouranthThe streamer previously disclosed that she held roughly 211 Bitcoin, worth over $20 million in November 2024, to online followers \u2014 making her a target for armed robbery.<br \/>\nRelated: UK authorizes charges against NCA officer for alleged Bitcoin theft<br \/>\nCrypto kidnappings and extortion on the rise<br \/>\nThe incident is merely the latest in a string of kidnappings and armed robberies aimed at crypto holders.<br \/>\nIn January 2025, a UK court sentenced seven gang members for the kidnapping and extortion of a crypto investor, who was repeatedly assaulted and coerced into handing over funds over several months.<br \/>\nDuring that same month, reports emerged that Ledger co-founder David Balland was kidnapped in France and held for a crypto ransom before being rescued by law enforcement.<br \/>\nMagazine: Scam AI \u2018kidnappings\u2019, $20K robot chef, Ackman\u2019s AI plagiarism war: AI Eye<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/four-suspects-charged-home-invasion-streamer-amouranth?utm_source=rss_feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsFour suspects were charged in connection with the home invasion of online streamer Amouranth, whose real name is Kaitlyn Siragusa. The streamer says she was held at gunpoint&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125190"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}