K&R database cleanup: handoff bundle

Self-contained bundle to continue the case-summary enrichment pass (70/256 done). sources/ holds the 364 .txt dossiers; scripts use relative paths.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018FJRciSWZc9HftS2edbzBf

merge-output/build_overrides_batch3.py

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+import json, io, sys
+sys.stdout = io.TextIOWrapper(sys.stdout.buffer, encoding="utf-8", errors="replace")
+PATH = __file__[:__file__.rfind("build_overrides")] + "summary-overrides.json"
+existing = json.load(open(PATH, encoding="utf-8"))
+
+def s(*cats):
+    return "\n\n".join(cats)
+
+B = {}
+
+B["309"] = s(
+ "**Victims:** An unidentified woman, a cryptocurrency investor in Dubai, UAE.",
+ "**Attackers:** A four-man gang of Asian expats, one of whom worked as her driver and knew she was a crypto investor and drew in the other three; all four were convicted.",
+ "**Attack Method:** The driver lured her into a bogus deal, posing as wanting to buy digital currency, and had her come to a spot in Dubai Investments Park, where a group approached her and demanded she transfer her money to their account.",
+ "**Violence Used:** She was assaulted, electrocuted, stripped naked and photographed for blackmail, then left on a street for several hours with her hands tied and a plastic bag over her face.",
+ "**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** They robbed her of Dh42,000 and converted the cash into bitcoin.",
+ "**Status:** She ran to police; CID tracked the gang via CCTV and recovered her clothes, an electric-shock device and the nude clips from their homes. The four were sentenced to three years, fined Dh42,000 and ordered deported after their sentences.",
+)
+
+B["308"] = s(
+ "**Victims:** An unnamed 23-year-old member of the Saudi Arabian royal family, who reportedly traded digital assets, in the Melbourne area of Australia.",
+ "**Attackers:** Catherine Colivas, a 24-year-old Australian TikTok influencer who lured him, together with three men who ambushed him. Colivas pleaded guilty.",
+ "**Attack Method:** In February 2023 Colivas met the man for drinks; when he offered to drive her home, three men jumped him and drove him off against his will, later returning him to his own home.",
+ "**Violence Used:** He was bound with zip ties and threatened with having his fingers cut off; the case also involved a weapon (Colivas was convicted of recklessly causing injury and gun possession).",
+ "**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** The kidnappers demanded a $20,000 ransom, and he transferred $40,000 in Bitcoin to their accounts; they also stole several luxury items from his home before releasing him.",
+ "**Status:** He was driven home and released. Colivas pleaded guilty to kidnapping, extortion, recklessly causing injury, theft and gun possession; on 16 December 2024 she received only a community corrections order (avoiding jail, having faced up to 25 years), citing her mental condition and upbringing.",
+)
+
+B["307"] = s(
+ "**Victims:** A vulnerable man in the Salford / Irlam area of Greater Manchester, repeatedly targeted by a cryptocurrency gang that had used him to acquire hundreds of thousands of pounds in crypto. This record is the fourth in a series of incidents against him (see the related Salford cases).",
+ "**Attackers:** Members of a seven-man crypto gang later convicted of the campaign \u2014 Jonathan Newns, David Povey, Luke Johnson, Gary Edwards, Kane Godiff, Karl Johnson and Scott Armstrong.",
+ "**Attack Method:** In this fourth incident, days after an October captivity, the gang came to the victim's house again demanding more money and took him to an address on Egret Drive in Irlam \u2014 where police would later find him \u2014 placing a bag over his head.",
+ "**Violence Used:** In this incident he was taken from his home and had a bag placed over his head; across the wider months-long campaign he was also drugged (with morphine on one occasion), deliberately burnt, beaten with weapons, bound with cables and locked in a cupboard.",
+ "**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** The gang repeatedly forced him to hand over cryptocurrency, having used him to acquire hundreds of thousands of pounds' worth; on an earlier occasion he was released only after paying over \u00a3100,000.",
+ "**Status:** He was eventually found at the Egret Drive flat on 2 December after an anonymous tip and begged officers, \"can you take me with you?\" In January 2025 the seven men were convicted and jailed for more than 76 years between them. (The DB description and notes on this record wrongly duplicate incidents 1 and 2 and are flagged for correction.)",
+)
+
+B["304"] = s(
+ "**Victims:** A middle-aged couple in north Richmond, British Columbia, Canada.",
+ "**Attackers:** Multiple armed suspects, some impersonating police officers; one man, 34-year-old Jin Da Xing of Richmond, was charged with 11 offences.",
+ "**Attack Method:** On 13 September 2022, according to Richmond RCMP, multiple armed suspects — some of them impersonating police — allegedly entered the couple's home.",
+ "**Violence Used:** The couple were allegedly assaulted, bound and held for several hours; RCMP said they suffered non-life-threatening injuries but were left badly shaken.",
+ "**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** The suspects fled with $10 million in cryptocurrency and several luxury items; a large portion of the crypto was later recovered.",
+ "**Status:** A year-long Richmond RCMP investigation (Serious Crime and Economic Crime units, with the National Crypto Support Unit) led to 11 charges against Jin Da Xing \u2014 including break and enter, robbery with a weapon, unlawful confinement, use of an imitation firearm, three counts of assault, extortion, possession of stolen property and impersonating a police officer. He is remanded awaiting trial.",
+)
+
+B["303"] = s(
+ "**Victims:** An Asian investor in the Mankhool area of Dubai, UAE. A friend who had suggested the investment and passed on the 'broker' contact was also robbed and is treated by the court as a second victim.",
+ "**Attackers:** A group who set up a fake Bitcoin deal \u2014 a broker who came to the victim's home to inspect the cash, and two men who then forced their way in and carried out the robbery; two people were later jailed.",
+ "**Attack Method:** In July 2022 the broker came to the investor's home, checked the cash he wanted to use to buy Bitcoin, and left promising to return with a seller; he then phoned to say the seller was hesitating, and moments later two men knocked, forced their way in and immobilised the victim.",
+ "**Violence Used:** He was assaulted and physically restrained, and the robbers threatened to kill him.",
+ "**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** No cryptocurrency changed hands; the robbers took a bag containing Dh183,000 in cash along with three phones, documents and bank cheques.",
+ "**Status:** The Dubai Criminal Court convicted two people, sentencing them to three years, fining them the stolen amount and ordering deportation after their sentences.",
+)
+
+B["301"] = s(
+ "**Victims:** The owner of an aluminium factory in the West Meru industrial area near Klang, Malaysia; the on-duty security personnel were also targeted.",
+ "**Attackers:** A group of robbers; twelve men (including one Indonesian) were arrested in nine raids, and three more remained at large (Tan Jian Farn alias 'Q-Peng', 37; Herman Petrus, 41; and Abdul Rahim Mohamad Ali, 33). All the local suspects had prior criminal and drug records, while the arrested Indonesian had none.",
+ "**Attack Method:** The factory was broken into and robbed early in the morning across two incidents, on 27 April and 20 May 2022; the robbers tied up the security guards.",
+ "**Violence Used:** The security personnel were tied up; no injuries were reported.",
+ "**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** The robbers stole 180 bitcoin mining machines (ASICs) \u2014 not bitcoin itself \u2014 a loss put at hundreds of thousands of ringgit.",
+ "**Status:** Twelve men were arrested on 26\u201327 May and remanded for five days; cars, computers, phones and mining machines were seized, and police said the arrests solved three bitcoin-machine robbery cases in the area. Three suspects were still being sought; the case was opened under Section 395/397 of the Penal Code.",
+)
+
+B["299"] = s(
+ "**Victims:** Four separate cryptocurrency investors mugged on the street in the City of London, in cases drawn from anonymised City of London police reports obtained by the Guardian.",
+ "**Attackers:** Various street muggers and small gangs operating opportunistically.",
+ "**Attack Method:** The muggings combined physical force with digital knowhow \u2014 seizing victims' phones and forcing them to unlock crypto apps (by facial or fingerprint verification) or exploiting PINs the thieves had watched them enter. One victim was targeted while ordering an Uber near Liverpool Street; another was lured down an alley under the guise of a drug deal and held against a wall; a third, while ill under a bridge, was forced to unlock his phone by fingerprint; a fourth had his phone and cards pickpocketed after the pub.",
+ "**Violence Used:** Physical force and coercion \u2014 forced phone handovers, being held against a wall and forced biometric unlocks.",
+ "**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** The four losses were about \u00a35,000 in ethereum (from a Coinbase account), \u00a36,000 in ripple, \u00a328,700 (including cryptocurrency), and \u00a310,000 from a Crypto.com account.",
+ "**Status:** The incidents (second half of 2021) were disclosed via a freedom-of-information request; police described such one-off street crimes as a new challenge and were expanding officer training and public-awareness efforts.",
+)
+
+B["298"] = s(
+ "**Victims:** The unidentified owner of a Bitcoin trading company in the Al Nakhil area of Dubai, UAE, assaulted at his workplace.",
+ "**Attackers:** A gang of nine, all later identified, arrested and convicted.",
+ "**Attack Method:** In April 2022 the nine robbers knocked on the door of the company's headquarters, entered, attacked the owner and took the cash by force. (This was a workplace robbery, not an abduction.)",
+ "**Violence Used:** He was assaulted during the robbery.",
+ "**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** They stole Dh4,120,000 in cash from the Bitcoin trading company; no cryptocurrency itself was taken.",
+ "**Status:** Police identified and arrested all nine; the Dubai Criminal Court sentenced them to three years followed by deportation.",
+)
+
+B["297"] = s(
+ "**Victims:** A bitcoin trader in Dubai, UAE; the cash stolen belonged to his trading partner, who is a second victim in the case.",
+ "**Attackers:** Four Asian men who had entered the country illegally and fled afterward; all were caught, confessed, and were jointly fined.",
+ "**Attack Method:** In March 2022 a group came to his residence claiming his 'address was incorrect'; when he tried to close the door they pushed in, he fell, and they put a knife to his neck, tied him with plastic rope, took the safe key from under a table and emptied the safe.",
+ "**Violence Used:** A knife was held to his neck and he was tied up with plastic rope; he was not otherwise injured.",
+ "**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** No cryptocurrency was taken; the robbers took Dh1.7 million in cash from a safe belonging to his trading partner.",
+ "**Status:** He freed himself and alerted his partner and police; investigators found the men had illegally infiltrated the country and fled, then caught them in a coordinated operation. They confessed and were jointly fined Dh1.7 million.",
+)
+
+B["296"] = s(
+ "**Victims:** A woman in Dubai, UAE, who wanted to buy Bitcoin for Dh300,000 and went to meet the seller with two friends.",
+ "**Attackers:** A gang of four \u2014 two men who carried out the robbery with an axe and two others who kept watch; all four were convicted.",
+ "**Attack Method:** She went to Al Nahda to meet the supposed seller; while the group waited, two men approached carrying an axe, threatened to harm them, and seized the bag of money and other valuables, then escaped by car.",
+ "**Violence Used:** They were threatened with an axe; no injuries were reported.",
+ "**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** No Bitcoin changed hands; the robbers took a bag holding Dh300,000 in cash plus other valuables.",
+ "**Status:** A passer-by heard the women's cries and noted the getaway car's plate; Dubai Police arrested a suspect the women identified, and he led officers to the others. The four were charged with robbery, sentenced to one year in jail followed by deportation, and fined Dh342,188, with the verdict open to appeal within 15 days.",
+)
+
+existing.update(B)
+json.dump(existing, open(PATH, "w", encoding="utf-8"), ensure_ascii=False, indent=2)
+print("wrote", len(B), "summaries; file now has", len(existing), "entries")
+for k in sorted(B, key=int):
+    print(f"  {k}: {len(B[k])} chars")