docs(detention): forced-entry rule; close the ten open flag items
Owner's decisions of 2026-09-07 applied: - Rule sharpened in README "Definitions": forced entry into the victim's space (home, office, hotel room, car) followed by beating or holding them there to take what is wanted is detention, however short. - 354, 355 (null) and 124 set to 0. 242, 273, 413, 422, 423, 215, 298 stay 1; the set-to-0 proposals for them are withdrawn under the rule. - corrections-approved.md, detention-flag-review.md and the corrections JSON carry the decisions; the worklist item says no open items remain. - Summaries 242 and 273 relabelled "Detention" with the forced-entry wording. verify_all.py PASSES. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GZZENdTLzNGsbNy4DyF1yt
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@@ -80,11 +80,13 @@ time: tied, taped, handcuffed or zip-tied; locked in a room or vehicle; held at
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while forced to unlock or transfer; taken away in a car; held under a fake arrest; kept for
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hours or days. It is 0 when control was never gained: a snatch or mugging in passing, a
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break-in of empty premises, threats or extortion at a distance, a plot foiled before contact,
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an attempt the victim fled or fought off before being restrained. Judgment line: a victim
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held at gunpoint for the minutes it takes to force a transfer counts as detained; a victim
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punched and left within seconds does not. Who was held does not change the flag: if detention
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was used on anyone to force submission or to execute the theft (guards, staff, a concierge, a
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relative), the flag is 1 even when the record's named victim was absent (owner's rule, 2026-09-06).
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an attempt the victim fled or fought off before being restrained. Judgment line (owner's rule, 2026-09-06/07): if attackers force entry into the victim's space, a home,
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an office, a hotel room, a car, and there beat the victim or hold them until they hand over what
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is wanted, that is detention, however short; the victim would have left if they could. Control
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that was never gained is not: a plot foiled before contact, an attempt the victim fought off at
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the door or in the street, a snatch in passing, a break-in of empty premises. Who was held does
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not change the flag: detention used on guards, staff, a concierge or a relative to force submission
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or execute the theft counts as 1 even when the record's named victim was absent.
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**Kidnapping** is a SCENARIO, one of eleven attack patterns. It means the victim was taken
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from where they were to a place under the attackers' control and held there, usually for a
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@@ -37,10 +37,10 @@ HAND = {
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"224": ("Detention — abducted and held by an armed group that accused him of illegal Hundi/Hawala dealing and threatened him.", "abducted"),
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"229": ("Possible detention — by his own account he was drugged and became docile in the car; as he was made to get out in a residential area near Golders Green the car drove off and struck his leg, leaving him unable to walk.", "drugged"),
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"230": ("No detention — the attempt to force her into the van was fought off. The child's father intervened and was struck by the attackers as the victim cried out and many passers-by looked on.", "force the mother into"),
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"242": ("No detention — she was punched in the face roughly ten times in front of her family and taken to hospital; the attackers fled.", "punched"),
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"242": ("Detention — the two forced entry and held her in her own home while beating her: she was punched in the face roughly ten times in front of her family and taken to hospital; the attackers fled when the husband appeared.", "punched"),
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"253": ("Detention — forced into a van and driven off; inside the van he was physically assaulted and threatened with a firearm, and he was later taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.", "forced into"),
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"256": ("No detention — the intruders were armed (one with a switchblade, another with a fake firearm) but the attempt was foiled at the fence and no one was harmed.", "foiled"),
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"273": ("No detention — he was stabbed during the robbery, describing the scene afterwards as looking \"like a massacre\".", "stabbed"),
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"273": ("Detention — confronted inside his own home by the two men, who stabbed and robbed him; he described the scene afterwards as looking \"like a massacre\".", "stabbed"),
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"292": ("Detention — threatened with a gun-like object and forced back inside his home.", "forced back"),
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"298": ("He was assaulted during the robbery; the source on file does not say whether anyone was restrained.", "assaulted"),
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"299": ("No detention beyond the moment of the mugging — physical force and coercion: forced phone handovers, being held against a wall and forced biometric unlocks.", "held against a wall"),
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@@ -87,5 +87,7 @@ Rule clarified the same day: detention used on anyone (guards, staff, a concierg
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force submission or execute the theft counts as 1, whether or not the record's named victim was
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present. Case 301 (guards tied up) is therefore in the list above.
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Still open, not yet decided: the 1-to-0 proposals (124, 242, 273, 413, 422, 423, and nulls 354, 355)
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and the two CHECK items (215, 298).
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→ **Set `kidnappings` to 0 on 354, 355 (currently null) and 124** (decided 2026-09-07).
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Withdrawn 2026-09-07, these stay 1: 242, 273, 413, 422, 423, 215, 298. Rule: forced entry into the
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victim's space followed by beating or holding them there is detention, however short. No open items.
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@@ -104,7 +104,8 @@
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"current": 1,
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"proposed": 0,
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"confidence": "CLEAR",
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"basis": "record: attempted home invasion, victim fired at the attackers, who fled; no control gained"
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"basis": "record: attempted home invasion, victim fired at the attackers, who fled; no control gained",
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"status": "ACCEPTED 2026-09-07 under the owner's rule: attempted entry, victim fired, no one held; set to 0"
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},
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{
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"target": "DB id 139",
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@@ -227,9 +228,10 @@
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"target": "DB id 215",
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"field": "kidnappings (detention)",
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"current": 1,
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"proposed": 0,
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"confidence": "CHECK",
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"basis": "lured to a hotel room and stabbed to death; no source on file shows he was held before the attack; the bulk summary's \"victim kidnapped\" is template text"
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"proposed": 1,
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"confidence": "RULE",
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"basis": "lured to a hotel room and stabbed to death; no source on file shows he was held before the attack; the bulk summary's \"victim kidnapped\" is template text",
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"status": "WITHDRAWN 2026-09-07: stays 1 under the owner's rule (forced entry into the victim's space plus violence or holding there is detention, however short): attacked by four men inside the hotel room and robbed"
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},
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{
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"target": "DB id 229",
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@@ -244,9 +246,10 @@
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"target": "DB id 242",
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"field": "kidnappings (detention)",
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"current": 1,
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"proposed": 0,
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"confidence": "CLEAR",
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"basis": "record and Le Parisien: punched about ten times at home, attackers fled when the husband appeared; no restraint"
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"proposed": 1,
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"confidence": "RULE",
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"basis": "record and Le Parisien: punched about ten times at home, attackers fled when the husband appeared; no restraint",
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"status": "WITHDRAWN 2026-09-07: stays 1 under the owner's rule (forced entry into the victim's space plus violence or holding there is detention, however short): forced entry, beaten inside her home in front of her family"
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},
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{
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"target": "DB id 253",
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@@ -261,17 +264,19 @@
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"target": "DB id 273",
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"field": "kidnappings (detention)",
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"current": 1,
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"proposed": 0,
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"confidence": "CLEAR",
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"basis": "record: stabbed and robbed at home; nothing shows he was held"
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"proposed": 1,
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"confidence": "RULE",
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"basis": "record: stabbed and robbed at home; nothing shows he was held",
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"status": "WITHDRAWN 2026-09-07: stays 1 under the owner's rule (forced entry into the victim's space plus violence or holding there is detention, however short): forced entry, stabbed and robbed inside his home"
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},
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{
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"target": "DB id 298",
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"field": "kidnappings (detention)",
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"current": 1,
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"proposed": 0,
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"confidence": "CHECK",
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"basis": "nine robbers entered the office and attacked the owner; no source on file says anyone was restrained"
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"proposed": 1,
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"confidence": "RULE",
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"basis": "nine robbers entered the office and attacked the owner; no source on file says anyone was restrained",
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"status": "WITHDRAWN 2026-09-07: stays 1 under the owner's rule (forced entry into the victim's space plus violence or holding there is detention, however short): nine robbers inside the office, owner attacked, cash taken"
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},
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{
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"target": "DB id 301",
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@@ -298,7 +303,8 @@
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"current": null,
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"proposed": 0,
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"confidence": "CLEAR",
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"basis": "null today; first visit of the Salford series: knock, threat, payment; the later incidents (307, 162, 169) carry the detention"
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"basis": "null today; first visit of the Salford series: knock, threat, payment; the later incidents (307, 162, 169) carry the detention",
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"status": "ACCEPTED 2026-09-07 by the database owner: set to 0"
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},
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{
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"target": "DB id 355",
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@@ -306,7 +312,8 @@
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"current": null,
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"proposed": 0,
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"confidence": "CLEAR",
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"basis": "null today; second visit, knife threat, payment; no restraint"
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"basis": "null today; second visit, knife threat, payment; no restraint",
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"status": "ACCEPTED 2026-09-07 by the database owner: set to 0"
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},
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{
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"target": "DB id 380",
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@@ -321,9 +328,10 @@
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"target": "DB id 413",
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"field": "kidnappings (detention)",
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"current": 1,
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"proposed": 0,
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"confidence": "CLEAR",
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"basis": "SPD blotter: forced entry, assault, strangling; suspect arrested during the struggle; no control gained"
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"proposed": 1,
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"confidence": "RULE",
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"basis": "SPD blotter: forced entry, assault, strangling; suspect arrested during the struggle; no control gained",
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"status": "WITHDRAWN 2026-09-07: stays 1 under the owner's rule (forced entry into the victim's space plus violence or holding there is detention, however short): forced entry, homeowner assaulted and wife strangled inside the home"
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},
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{
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"target": "DB id 419",
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@@ -338,16 +346,18 @@
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"target": "DB id 422",
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"field": "kidnappings (detention)",
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"current": 1,
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"proposed": 0,
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"confidence": "CLEAR",
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"basis": "record: hit on the back of the head by the driveway, fell; nothing shows he was held"
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"proposed": 1,
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"confidence": "RULE",
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"basis": "record: hit on the back of the head by the driveway, fell; nothing shows he was held",
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"status": "WITHDRAWN 2026-09-07: stays 1 under the owner's rule (forced entry into the victim's space plus violence or holding there is detention, however short): ordered into the garage at gunpoint and struck"
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},
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{
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"target": "DB id 423",
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"field": "kidnappings (detention)",
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"current": 1,
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"proposed": 0,
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"confidence": "CLEAR",
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"basis": "record: pushed inside and aimed a gun, victim pushed back, suspect fled; no control gained"
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"proposed": 1,
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"confidence": "RULE",
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"basis": "record: pushed inside and aimed a gun, victim pushed back, suspect fled; no control gained",
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"status": "WITHDRAWN 2026-09-07: stays 1 under the owner's rule (forced entry into the victim's space plus violence or holding there is detention, however short): forced entry, gun aimed at the victim inside the home"
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}
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]
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@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@ Nothing here is applied to the DB. Every line quotes the record or an article al
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**Decision 2026-09-06 (database owner):** every 0-to-1 proposal below is ACCEPTED, 301 included after the rule was
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clarified: detention used on anyone (guards, staff, a relative) to force submission or execute the
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theft counts as 1, whether or not the record's named victim was present. The 1-to-0 proposals and the two CHECK items are still open. Status per case is in
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theft counts as 1, whether or not the record's named victim was present. Decision 2026-09-07: 354, 355 and 124 go to 0. The other 1-to-0 proposals and the CHECK items are
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WITHDRAWN: 242, 273, 413, 423, 422, 215 and 298 stay 1 under the owner's rule that forced entry into the
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victim's space followed by beating or holding them there is detention, however short. No open items. Status per case is in
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detention-flag-corrections.json; the accepted set is also listed in corrections-approved.md.
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Not reviewed one by one: the 219 records already at 1 in the Kidnapping, Home Invasion, Authority Misuse,
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@@ -49,19 +51,19 @@ flag=1 records in Dodged Attack, Costly Fame, Armed Robbery and P2P were read (a
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## Flag 1, propose 0 (no control was gained)
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- **case 124** (Dodged Attack, USA, March 30, 2022) — now `1`, propose **0** [CLEAR]: record: attempted home invasion, victim fired at the attackers, who fled; no control gained
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- **case 215** (P2P Trade Gone Wrong, South Korea, February 24, 2025) — now `1`, propose **0** [CHECK]: lured to a hotel room and stabbed to death; no source on file shows he was held before the attack; the bulk summary's "victim kidnapped" is template text
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- **case 242** (Costly Fame, France, July 7, 2025) — now `1`, propose **0** [CLEAR]: record and Le Parisien: punched about ten times at home, attackers fled when the husband appeared; no restraint
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- **case 273** (Costly Fame, UK, November ?, 2018) — now `1`, propose **0** [CLEAR]: record: stabbed and robbed at home; nothing shows he was held
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- **case 298** (Armed Robbery in Public Space, UAE, April ?, 2022) — now `1`, propose **0** [CHECK]: nine robbers entered the office and attacked the owner; no source on file says anyone was restrained
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- **case 413** (Dodged Attack, USA, February 20, 2026) — now `1`, propose **0** [CLEAR]: SPD blotter: forced entry, assault, strangling; suspect arrested during the struggle; no control gained
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- **case 422** (Dodged Attack, USA, December 17, 2025) — now `1`, propose **0** [CLEAR]: record: hit on the back of the head by the driveway, fell; nothing shows he was held
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- **case 423** (Dodged Attack, USA, December 22, 2025) — now `1`, propose **0** [CLEAR]: record: pushed inside and aimed a gun, victim pushed back, suspect fled; no control gained
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- **case 124** (Dodged Attack, USA, March 30, 2022) — now `1`, propose **0** [CLEAR, ACCEPTED 2026-09-07]: record: attempted home invasion, victim fired at the attackers, who fled; no control gained
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- **case 215** (P2P Trade Gone Wrong, South Korea, February 24, 2025) — now `1`, propose **1\*\* [WITHDRAWN, stays 1]: attacked by four men inside the hotel room and robbed (owner's rule 2026-09-07). Earlier note: lured to a hotel room and stabbed to death; no source on file shows he was held before the attack; the bulk summary's "victim kidnapped" is template text
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- **case 242** (Costly Fame, France, July 7, 2025) — now `1`, propose **1\*\* [WITHDRAWN, stays 1]: forced entry, beaten inside her home in front of her family (owner's rule 2026-09-07). Earlier note: record and Le Parisien: punched about ten times at home, attackers fled when the husband appeared; no restraint
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- **case 273** (Costly Fame, UK, November ?, 2018) — now `1`, propose **1\*\* [WITHDRAWN, stays 1]: forced entry, stabbed and robbed inside his home (owner's rule 2026-09-07). Earlier note: record: stabbed and robbed at home; nothing shows he was held
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- **case 298** (Armed Robbery in Public Space, UAE, April ?, 2022) — now `1`, propose **1\*\* [WITHDRAWN, stays 1]: nine robbers inside the office, owner attacked, cash taken (owner's rule 2026-09-07). Earlier note: nine robbers entered the office and attacked the owner; no source on file says anyone was restrained
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- **case 413** (Dodged Attack, USA, February 20, 2026) — now `1`, propose **1\*\* [WITHDRAWN, stays 1]: forced entry, homeowner assaulted and wife strangled inside the home (owner's rule 2026-09-07). Earlier note: SPD blotter: forced entry, assault, strangling; suspect arrested during the struggle; no control gained
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- **case 422** (Dodged Attack, USA, December 17, 2025) — now `1`, propose **1\*\* [WITHDRAWN, stays 1]: ordered into the garage at gunpoint and struck (owner's rule 2026-09-07). Earlier note: record: hit on the back of the head by the driveway, fell; nothing shows he was held
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- **case 423** (Dodged Attack, USA, December 22, 2025) — now `1`, propose **1\*\* [WITHDRAWN, stays 1]: forced entry, gun aimed at the victim inside the home (owner's rule 2026-09-07). Earlier note: record: pushed inside and aimed a gun, victim pushed back, suspect fled; no control gained
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## Null, propose 0
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- **case 354** (Home Invasion, UK, January ?, 2023) — now `None`, propose **0** [CLEAR]: null today; first visit of the Salford series: knock, threat, payment; the later incidents (307, 162, 169) carry the detention
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- **case 355** (Home Invasion, UK, January ?, 2023) — now `None`, propose **0** [CLEAR]: null today; second visit, knife threat, payment; no restraint
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- **case 354** (Home Invasion, UK, January ?, 2023) — now `None`, propose **0** [CLEAR, ACCEPTED 2026-09-07]: null today; first visit of the Salford series: knock, threat, payment; the later incidents (307, 162, 169) carry the detention
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- **case 355** (Home Invasion, UK, January ?, 2023) — now `None`, propose **0** [CLEAR, ACCEPTED 2026-09-07]: null today; second visit, knife threat, payment; no restraint
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## Flag 0 confirmed as 0 (attempts without control) — no change
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@@ -251,7 +251,8 @@ row 252 wrong URL / Phuket case). Additional items found during the summary pass
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`detention` and the sheet column "Kidnappings" to "Detention"; the scenario name "Kidnapping" stays.
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Full rule: README-START-HERE.md, "Definitions". Per-case proposals with evidence:
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`detention-flag-review.md` / `detention-flag-corrections.json` (40 records; on 2026-09-06 the owner ACCEPTED all 30 set-to-1 proposals (rule clarified: detention of
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anyone, guards or staff included, counts); the 10 set-to-0 items incl. the two nulls and 2 checks are still open). This REPLACES the earlier item
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anyone, guards or staff included, counts); on 2026-09-07 the owner set 354, 355 and 124 to 0 and
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withdrew the other set-to-0 proposals under the forced-entry rule; no open items). This REPLACES the earlier item
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"`kidnappings` = 1 but no abduction: 293, 271, 273, 298" — under the detention rule 293 and 271 stay 1
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(held at gunpoint / forced back inside), 273 goes to 0 (stabbed, not held), 298 needs a source check.
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- **Case 237** — `violence_torture` = 0 but the source says he was beaten; `theft` = 1 though nothing was
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@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ AI SUMMARY [revised on review, verified against the sources in this file. Live
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**Attack Method:** On the afternoon of Monday 7 July 2025 the two entered her home; one repeatedly punched her in the face (about ten blows) while the other tried to reach the flat's private spaces, seeking the credentials to her crypto wallet. The arrested man said he had identified her through social media.
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**Violence Used:** No detention — she was punched in the face roughly ten times in front of her family and taken to hospital; the attackers fled.
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**Violence Used:** Detention — the two forced entry and held her in her own home while beating her: she was punched in the face roughly ten times in front of her family and taken to hospital; the attackers fled when the husband appeared.
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**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** The attackers sought to force her to hand over her crypto-wallet credentials; the husband's intervention and police arrival stopped them, and nothing was taken.
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**Attack Method:** One night, woken by noises, he went downstairs in his boxers and was confronted by the two men, who screamed at him to hand over money, drugs and watches and ordered him to empty a safe and flip his mattress (he had none of what they expected).
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**Violence Used:** No detention — he was stabbed during the robbery, describing the scene afterwards as looking "like a massacre".
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**Violence Used:** Detention — confronted inside his own home by the two men, who stabbed and robbed him; he described the scene afterwards as looking "like a massacre".
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**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** No cryptocurrency was taken; the attackers made off with his dog (worth about £1,000), his Apple MacBook, gold bracelets and a gold wedding ring.
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"288": "**Victims:** The father (surname Ghershony; first name withheld) of Bethesda, Maryland, a cryptocurrency investor whose son was a partner on their joint account.\n\n**Attackers:** His son, Liam Ghershony, 24, who was in the grip of severe benzodiazepine, Adderall and cocaine addiction and had been advising his father on crypto.\n\n**Attack Method:** After a day of moving furniture into his father's loft and dinner out, Liam served him tea spiked with a large dose of benzodiazepine, presented as an energy boost; once his father was unconscious he used the man's phone to clear the two-step authorisation on the account.\n\n**Violence Used:** The benzodiazepine dose, large enough to knock out a non-addict, left the father unresponsive on his floor for two days; he was hospitalised for four days with severe dehydration and acute organ dysfunction.\n\n**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** Liam moved $400,000 of bitcoin to an account he controlled and converted two-thirds of it to Ethereum, leaving notes promising his father \"the best retirement\".\n\n**Status:** His mother reported him for \"dosing\" his father. Initially charged with attempted murder, he was found to have had no intent to kill; he pleaded guilty to first-degree assault, served 125 days in jail plus two months of residential drug and mental-health treatment, with 20 years of suspended time, and entered recovery.",
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"285": "**Victims:** Dillon Attard, 27, a cryptocurrency holder in Sliema, Malta.\n\n**Attackers:** Luke Milton, a 25-year-old company director charged with misappropriation and fraud, cryptocurrency theft, money laundering and breaches of the Virtual Financial Assets Act (pleading not guilty); a business partner of Milton's also featured in the lead-up.\n\n**Attack Method:** The two met for lunch at a Sliema restaurant after Milton sought Attard's help with a small (€5,000) blockchain investment; when Attard handed his phone across the table for Milton to scan his wallet barcode, Milton allegedly pressed 'maximise', 'send' and 'confirm' in seconds while acting normally.\n\n**Violence Used:** No detention, no violence — this was a sleight-of-hand fraud, not a violent attack.\n\n**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** About 424,671 Unizen tokens, worth roughly $700,000, were allegedly siphoned to another wallet in an irreversible transfer.\n\n**Status:** Attard snatched his phone back and alerted two police-officer friends; when police arrived Milton allegedly admitted sending the transaction but blamed Attard. The episode was caught on restaurant CCTV; Milton is charged and the case continues.",
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"279": "**Victims:** A Ho Chi Minh City businessman and bitcoin investor (referred to in the record as Le Duc Nguyen), together with his wife, children and brother-in-law, who were seized with him.\n\n**Attackers:** A group led by businessman Ho Ngoc Tai (32) that included two serving HCMC police officers (Nguyen Quoc Dung, 40, and Nguyen Anh Tuan, 28) and around 15 others, plus a hired private detective who mapped the family's routines. Tai's group blamed the victim's advice for their own 2018 crypto losses and plotted to take his bitcoin.\n\n**Attack Method:** After a staged motorbike-into-car 'accident' on 12 May 2020 failed (the victim drove off), the group learned his family was travelling from Bao Loc to HCMC and intercepted the car at Dau Giay, Dong Nai, on 17 May.\n\n**Violence Used:** Detention — the family was held in the attackers' cars over a two-hour drive; the victim and his brother-in-law were threatened with a fake gun; his wife and children were put in another car and menaced with a syringe of supposed HIV-infected blood (actually red ink); over the two-hour drive back to the city he was beaten and forced to call his brother to move 1,000 bitcoins.\n\n**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** The gang demanded 1,000 bitcoins; investigators found 168 bitcoins (about VND37 billion / US$1.63 million) and other property were actually taken.\n\n**Status:** The family was dropped by a road in District 2, their phones and cameras taken to destroy evidence, and they reported it to police. The culprits were arrested in June 2020; two police officers and 15 others face robbery charges carrying up to life imprisonment, with no trial date set.",
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"273": "**Victims:** Kieran Hamilton (\"Kez\"), 21, a self-taught cryptocurrency trader in Manchester who had posted his newly lavish lifestyle across Instagram and Twitter.\n\n**Attackers:** Two machete-wielding men who, he believes, targeted him after local rumours — amplified by his online presence — painted him as a cash-rich drug dealer.\n\n**Attack Method:** One night, woken by noises, he went downstairs in his boxers and was confronted by the two men, who screamed at him to hand over money, drugs and watches and ordered him to empty a safe and flip his mattress (he had none of what they expected).\n\n**Violence Used:** No detention — he was stabbed during the robbery, describing the scene afterwards as looking \"like a massacre\".\n\n**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** No cryptocurrency was taken; the attackers made off with his dog (worth about £1,000), his Apple MacBook, gold bracelets and a gold wedding ring.\n\n**Status:** Recounted by the victim as a first-person account; no arrest is recorded in the source.",
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"273": "**Victims:** Kieran Hamilton (\"Kez\"), 21, a self-taught cryptocurrency trader in Manchester who had posted his newly lavish lifestyle across Instagram and Twitter.\n\n**Attackers:** Two machete-wielding men who, he believes, targeted him after local rumours — amplified by his online presence — painted him as a cash-rich drug dealer.\n\n**Attack Method:** One night, woken by noises, he went downstairs in his boxers and was confronted by the two men, who screamed at him to hand over money, drugs and watches and ordered him to empty a safe and flip his mattress (he had none of what they expected).\n\n**Violence Used:** Detention — confronted inside his own home by the two men, who stabbed and robbed him; he described the scene afterwards as looking \"like a massacre\".\n\n**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** No cryptocurrency was taken; the attackers made off with his dog (worth about £1,000), his Apple MacBook, gold bracelets and a gold wedding ring.\n\n**Status:** Recounted by the victim as a first-person account; no arrest is recorded in the source.",
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"272": "**Victims:** An unidentified cryptocurrency miner, a resident of the Podilsky district of Kyiv, Ukraine.\n\n**Attackers:** Two brothers, born in 1988 and 1984, later detained.\n\n**Attack Method:** In March 2018 the pair waited near his home, put a sack over his head, forced him into a car and drove him out of the city.\n\n**Violence Used:** Detention — a sack over his head, forced into a car and driven out of the city; they threatened to kill him and used that to obtain his apartment keys and details of where he kept his money.\n\n**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** They took $50,000 from him.\n\n**Status:** He was driven to Brovary and released. About eight months later the Kyiv prosecutor's office and national police detained the two brothers, charging them with especially large-scale robbery by prior conspiracy (Article 187(4)); they face up to 15 years with confiscation of property, and a petition was filed to hold them in custody.",
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"271": "**Victims:** The occupants of a home on Ballouville Road in Killingly, Connecticut — a female renter who recognised the intruders and other occupants, including a child.\n\n**Attackers:** Two Rhode Island women — Monique Delannoy-Jodoin, 59, of Manville (already under investigation for narcotics sales through the postal system), and Beatriz Viruet, 38, of Providence — both arrested and charged.\n\n**Attack Method:** In March 2018 the two reportedly forced their way into the home. Police said the dispute stemmed from a bitcoin account the female victim had opened in Delannoy-Jodoin's name; Delannoy-Jodoin wanted the passwords and money she said had been stolen from her.\n\n**Violence Used:** They pistol-whipped one occupant on the head and used an electric cattle prod on another; the renter was chased into a bathroom, which a suspect tried to break into with a hammer before she escaped to a neighbour's, and one suspect was heard telling the other to \"shoot the victims\".\n\n**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** The dispute centred on the contested bitcoin account and its passwords; the intruders also stole money, cell phones and a television.\n\n**Status:** Both were arrested and charged — Delannoy-Jodoin with home invasion, risk of injury to a child, second-degree assault with a weapon, robbery, larceny, criminal mischief and threatening/reckless-endangerment counts, and Viruet with home invasion, first-degree robbery and breach of peace. They were held on $250,000 and $100,000 bonds and due at Danielson Superior Court.",
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"270": "**Victims:** An unidentified Odessa resident who had come to buy cryptocurrency.\n\n**Attackers:** A main suspect, taken into custody, together with accomplices who were still being sought.\n\n**Attack Method:** In January 2018 the criminals rented a short-term apartment on General Petrova Street in Odessa and arranged a meeting with the prospective buyer, who came unaware of the danger.\n\n**Violence Used:** The assailant and his accomplices beat the man.\n\n**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** No cryptocurrency changed hands; they stole his mobile phone, jewellery and money, causing losses of nearly 1,500,000 UAH (about $57,000).\n\n**Status:** The main suspect was remanded without bail and the Odessa prosecutor's office sent an indictment to court under Article 187(4) (an especially serious robbery charge, 3–15 years with confiscation); police were still working to identify the other accomplices.",
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"245": "**Victims:** Prince Pandey, a cryptocurrency trader in Ahmedabad, India, and the son of a retired Army Subedar Major.\n\n**Attackers:** Three men, all arrested — Karan Tarunbhai Nair (19), the acquaintance who set up the meeting, Harsh Ajaybhai Thakkar (21) and Kripalsinh Govindsingh Vihol (25), both car-rental operators; a weapon was recovered from them.\n\n**Attack Method:** Pandey had discussed a USDT cash exchange with Nair and was called to meet a supposed customer near Bapunagar Toll Plaza around 2 a.m. on 15 July 2025; on arrival he was forced into a black car with tinted glass and no number plate and moved between locations through the night.\n\n**Violence Used:** Detention — forced into a car and moved between locations through the night; he was brutally beaten and, because his crypto wallet had no strong password, repeatedly assaulted to force out his access credentials, suffering significant injuries that required hospital treatment.\n\n**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** The kidnappers demanded he transfer 50,000 USDT (about ₹42 lakh); the record indicates no transfer was completed.\n\n**Status:** His father alerted police after failing to reach him; the Ahmedabad City Crime Branch traced the route via CCTV and surveillance and rescued him by afternoon, arresting the three accused. Police attributed the motive to a pending crypto-related financial dispute.",
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"244": "**Victims:** Dilip Gaur (recorded as Gaud), of Ramdev Nagar, and his friend Ramesh Sharma, of Subhash Chowk, in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.\n\n**Attackers:** Four police constables from the Mata Ka Than Police Station — Narsingh Ram, Rakesh Poonia, Laduram and Jagmal Ram — all suspended and arrested; a further officer posted elsewhere is also a suspect, not yet arrested.\n\n**Attack Method:** On 14 July 2025 around 4 p.m., as the pair parked at a mall near Manji Ka Hatha, constable Jagmal (in uniform) and three or four others in plain clothes intimidated them, forced Dilip from the driver's seat, took over the car, and drove them to the Mata Ka Than Police Station.\n\n**Violence Used:** Detention — the pair were driven to a police station and held until about 8:30 p.m.; they intimidated the pair, forced them to sign documents, and threatened to implicate them in false criminal charges.\n\n**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** They extorted about ₹50,000 from each of the two (₹1 lakh in cash), then used Dilip's wife's ATM card to have Ramesh withdraw a further ₹1 lakh — ₹2 lakh in cash in all — and used Dilip's phone to transfer cryptocurrency (USDT, about ₹8.6 lakh) to an associate.\n\n**Status:** The two were released around 8:30 p.m. Dilip complained to police; a case was registered at Mahamandir Police Station under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the four constables were arrested, and a fifth officer remains a suspect.",
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"243": "**Victims:** A 38-year-old man in Queens, New York.\n\n**Attackers:** Six men; no arrests are recorded and their motive was unclear.\n\n**Attack Method:** On 8 July 2025, after dinner with a friend on Long Island, he was dropped at his car in Flushing (31st Rd. and Union St.); once the friend left, six men set upon him, tased him in the chest and drove him to an unknown location.\n\n**Violence Used:** Detention — he was tased in the chest and handcuffed while the suspects tried to extract money from him.\n\n**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** He handed over about 900,000 yen (more than $6,000), taken both by wire from a bank account and from a cryptocurrency account.\n\n**Status:** He was held for about ten days, then dropped back at his car; he drove to NewYork-Presbyterian Queens, called 911 just before 5 a.m., and told the NYPD what happened, but decided he did not need medical treatment.",
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"242": "**Victims:** A woman in Suresnes (Hauts-de-Seine), near Paris; the arrested suspect said he had targeted her via social media over the couple's cryptocurrency holdings. Her husband and children witnessed the attack.\n\n**Attackers:** Two men. One was arrested nearby carrying two knives and a cleaver; the second remained wanted.\n\n**Attack Method:** On the afternoon of Monday 7 July 2025 the two entered her home; one repeatedly punched her in the face (about ten blows) while the other tried to reach the flat's private spaces, seeking the credentials to her crypto wallet. The arrested man said he had identified her through social media.\n\n**Violence Used:** No detention — she was punched in the face roughly ten times in front of her family and taken to hospital; the attackers fled.\n\n**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** The attackers sought to force her to hand over her crypto-wallet credentials; the husband's intervention and police arrival stopped them, and nothing was taken.\n\n**Status:** One assailant was arrested nearby with two knives and a cleaver; the second is still wanted. The Hauts-de-Seine judicial police opened an investigation for attempted robbery with violence and are examining whether the pair belong to a larger group targeting crypto holders.",
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"242": "**Victims:** A woman in Suresnes (Hauts-de-Seine), near Paris; the arrested suspect said he had targeted her via social media over the couple's cryptocurrency holdings. Her husband and children witnessed the attack.\n\n**Attackers:** Two men. One was arrested nearby carrying two knives and a cleaver; the second remained wanted.\n\n**Attack Method:** On the afternoon of Monday 7 July 2025 the two entered her home; one repeatedly punched her in the face (about ten blows) while the other tried to reach the flat's private spaces, seeking the credentials to her crypto wallet. The arrested man said he had identified her through social media.\n\n**Violence Used:** Detention — the two forced entry and held her in her own home while beating her: she was punched in the face roughly ten times in front of her family and taken to hospital; the attackers fled when the husband appeared.\n\n**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** The attackers sought to force her to hand over her crypto-wallet credentials; the husband's intervention and police arrival stopped them, and nothing was taken.\n\n**Status:** One assailant was arrested nearby with two knives and a cleaver; the second is still wanted. The Hauts-de-Seine judicial police opened an investigation for attempted robbery with violence and are examining whether the pair belong to a larger group targeting crypto holders.",
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"240": "**Victims:** Sriharsha V., a 33-year-old businessman from Kengeri New Town, Bengaluru, India, who came to the meeting with two friends.\n\n**Attackers:** A gang of six to seven men, plus the middleman \"Benjamin Harsha\" who set up the meeting; police detained Benjamin and one other and were questioning them.\n\n**Attack Method:** Sriharsha had raised ₹2 crore to buy machinery from Germany and meant to convert the cash to USDT; a friend introduced him to Benjamin, who told him to bring the cash to MS Palya Circle in Vidyaranyapura on 25 June. As Benjamin's group counted the money in a shop, six to seven men barged in around 4:30 p.m. and demanded it.\n\n**Violence Used:** Detention — the gang locked the victims in the shop before fleeing (they escaped through the shutters); when the victims resisted, two of the men pulled out knives and threatened to kill them.\n\n**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** No cryptocurrency changed hands; the gang seized the group's mobile phones and stuffed the ₹2 crore in cash into a gunny bag.\n\n**Status:** The gang warned the victims off reporting it and locked them in the shop before fleeing; they escaped through the shutters. Police registered a case, detained Benjamin and another man, and Sriharsha said he could identify the attackers.",
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"238": "**Victims:** A 23-year-old man in Maisons-Alfort, France, and his partner, who was used to deliver the ransom.\n\n**Attackers:** A well-informed team plus an accomplice who collected the ransom; the number was not specified and no arrests were reported in this case.\n\n**Attack Method:** In a carefully planned operation on 17 June 2025, the couple went shopping by car; while the man waited to park, his partner was drawn away by a fake message about a work emergency and went home alone. A video call then instructed her to leave a Ledger crypto wallet and €5,000 in cash in a bag outside the building.\n\n**Violence Used:** Detention — the man was held and later released in Créteil; investigators say the man was subjected to violence to make him reveal the wallet and ransom details.\n\n**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** The abductors demanded a Ledger hardware wallet plus €5,000 in cash; the partner left the bag and an accomplice collected it, though it is not known whether the wallet held any funds.\n\n**Status:** Around 5 p.m. the man, released in Créteil, reached his partner unharmed. The Val-de-Marne judicial police opened an inquiry for kidnapping and organised detention, calling it a sensitive case amid a run of similar crypto-wallet abductions.",
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"237": "**Victims:** A 26-year-old cryptocurrency trader who makes TikTok content (about 40,000 followers), in Juvisy-sur-Orge, northern France.\n\n**Attackers:** Four men; no arrests were reported.\n\n**Attack Method:** On the night of Friday 13 June 2025 the four seized him as he returned home and forced him into a stolen vehicle, demanding he hand over €50,000 (about $57,000) in cryptocurrency.\n\n**Violence Used:** Detention — forced into a stolen vehicle and held until the next day; he was beaten during the incident and was later granted six days of work-incapacity benefit.\n\n**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** They demanded €50,000 in crypto, but he showed them the low balance in his account and nothing was taken.\n\n**Status:** He was released the next day once the kidnappers realised he could not pay. France's Organised and Specialised Crime Division is investigating.",
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