================================================================================================ CASE 005 | Dwayne Richards | May 27, 2015 | USA ================================================================================================ DATABASE RECORD id 5 date May 27, 2015 original_date May 27, 2015 year 2015 month 5 quarter 2015-Q2 victim Dwayne Richards location New York, New York country USA scenario Kidnapping description Firefighter kidnapped, robbed of $1,100, & stabbed by crypto thieves kidnappings 1 violence_torture 1 drugs_alcohol 0 weapons 1 theft 1 life_taken 0 money_wanted $1,100 coin_type BTC reports CNBC notes kidnapped, robbed, and stabbed has_processed_date 1 created_at 2025-11-13 05:44:45 (flag legend: 'kidnappings' is the DETENTION flag — 1 when the victim was held against their will at any point, tied, locked in, held at gunpoint or taken away; it is NOT the same as the 'Kidnapping' scenario, which means taken away and held. See README, Definitions.) AI SUMMARY [generated at bulk import, NOT verified against sources] **Victim:** Dwayne Richards **Attackers:** Unknown number of perpetrators **Attack Method:** Kidnapping for ransom **Violence Used:** Stabbing **Crypto Stolen:** $1,100 in BTC **Status:** Investigation ongoing LINKED SOURCES [url] https://www.cnbc.com/2015/06/05/new-york-city-man-robbed-at-gunpoint-for-bitcoin.html NOTES ON THIS FILE * matched to sheet row 6: exact match on victim + year, unique on both sides ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ARTICLE 1 Source CNBC URL https://www.cnbc.com/2015/06/05/new-york-city-man-robbed-at-gunpoint-for-bitcoin.html Origin reported_K&R sheet, row 6, column "Articles" Length 2,521 chars ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New York City man robbed at gunpoint for ... bitcoin? Friday, 5 Jun 2015 | 3:14 PM ET Put up your hands and start typing your PIN! A New York man was robbed at gunpoint of $1,100 worth of bitcoin, police told CNBC.com on Friday. The case is strongly similar to at least one other robbery in the Big Apple involving the digital currency earlier this year. The latest combination street-cyber crime occurred at around 11:30 a.m. on May 27 in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. The 28-year-old victim told police he went to a street corner there to meet a man who had answered his Craigslist.com ad offering bitcoins for sale, police said. The purported buyer then led the victim to a car to complete the purchase, where another man sitting in the backseat pulled a gun and ordered the victim to electronically transfer the bitcoins to the thieves, cops said. Read MoreBitcoin needs more consumer protection After the victim sent the bitcoins, the thugs then took the victim's cellphone, and drove off, according to police. The victim then called 911. "It's still under investigation," said the police spokeswoman. She said there was no surveillance video footage of the virtual money stickup available. In February, the New York Observer reported quoted a bitcoin dealer named Dean Katz, who described how he had been robbed at gunpoint by a man in Queens who had arranged to meet him to buy bitcoin so the man could gamble on the Super Bowl. Katz said he was forced to transfer $8,500 worth of bitcoin and also was robbed of $3,500 in cash. New York police on Friday gave additional details about that Jan. 22 robbery of Katz. They said he entered a car containing two other men at about 1:50 a.m. that morning to complete the sale. "He was held at gunpoint and the suspects requested his Samsung phone and money," police said. Katz then got out of the car, and the suspects fled, cops said. Read MoreBitcoin gets a rival—how will it fare? No arrests have been made in Katz's case. Katz also told the Observer he has heard from other bitcoin traders about additional strong-arm robberies of the digital currency as well as the use of counterfeit cash to buy bitcoin. The Observer article said that a New York City firefighter had been stabbed during a robbery of bitcoins that he had agreed to sell. But police on Friday told CNBC that that robbery, which occurred on Feb. 9, "is not bitcoin related." The firefighter's credit card and PIN number were stolen, and he was stabbed in the arm, police said. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FETCHED ARTICLE 1 [AUTO-TRIMMED — UNREVIEWED] !! Furniture was cut by a script keyed on this case's record, not by a person. !! It may still carry passages about OTHER cases from a round-up article. !! The full page extract is kept in staging/ if a cut needs revisiting. Source cnbc.com URL https://www.cnbc.com/2015/06/05/new-york-city-man-robbed-at-gunpoint-for-bitcoin.html Field url Retrieved 2026-09-05T12:57:03+00:00 via raw HTTP retrieval, deterministic extraction (HTTP 200) Language unknown Kept paragraphs 0-17 excl [7, 13] of 18 Length 2,509 chars Integrity sha256 cc71cd682ef6839d1d1bf4f60d19df3c1a4c8c2028401dd97906dc7844d4703a Trimmed AUTO-TRIMMED, unreviewed: kept paragraphs 0-17; dropped 0 leading and 0 trailing paragraphs and 2 interior furniture line(s). Case-term hits on page: 9. Caveat retrieved from a live page on the date above. Unlike text copied from the spreadsheet, there is no second copy to hash it against. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ORIGINAL (unknown, verbatim as retrieved) New York City man robbed at gunpoint for ... bitcoin? Put up your hands and start typing your PIN! A New York man was robbed at gunpoint of $1,100 worth of bitcoin, police told CNBC.com on Friday. The case is strongly similar to at least one other robbery in the Big Apple involving the digital currency earlier this year. The latest combination street-cyber crime occurred at around 11:30 a.m. on May 27 in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. The 28-year-old victim told police he went to a street corner there to meet a man who had answered his Craigslist.com ad offering bitcoins for sale, police said. The purported buyer then led the victim to a car to complete the purchase, where another man sitting in the backseat pulled a gun and ordered the victim to electronically transfer the bitcoins to the thieves, cops said. After the victim sent the bitcoins, the thugs then took the victim's cellphone, and drove off, according to police. The victim then called 911. "It's still under investigation," said the police spokeswoman. She said there was no surveillance video footage of the virtual money stickup available. In February, the New York Observer reported quoted a bitcoin dealer named Dean Katz, who described how he had been robbed at gunpoint by a man in Queens who had arranged to meet him to buy bitcoin so the man could gamble on the Super Bowl. Katz said he was forced to transfer $8,500 worth of bitcoin and also was robbed of $3,500 in cash. New York police on Friday gave additional details about that Jan. 22 robbery of Katz. They said he entered a car containing two other men at about 1:50 a.m. that morning to complete the sale. "He was held at gunpoint and the suspects requested his Samsung phone and money," police said. Katz then got out of the car, and the suspects fled, cops said. No arrests have been made in Katz's case. Katz also told the Observer he has heard from other bitcoin traders about additional strong-arm robberies of the digital currency as well as the use of counterfeit cash to buy bitcoin. The Observer article said that a New York City firefighter had been stabbed during a robbery of bitcoins that he had agreed to sell. But police on Friday told CNBC that that robbery, which occurred on Feb. 9, "is not bitcoin related." The firefighter's credit card and PIN number were stolen, and he was stabbed in the arm, police said. Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news. ================================================================================================ generated from attacks-export-Gart-website.json + reported_K&R | case 005 ================================================================================================