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StellarCrowandClaude Fable 5.1 499fd61f79 feat(sources): fetch linked URLs for the 252 spreadsheet-only cases
Until now only cases 357+ (plus a few older ones) had their linked URLs
fetched; the other 252 dossiers held just the text pasted into the
spreadsheet, often only the lede. This pass fetches every linked URL for
those cases so the full text is on file before link rot takes it.

- stage_all.py: new --include-sheet-cases flag that lifts the skip on
  cases holding spreadsheet articles. Resumable as before.
- staging/: raw extracts and index.json for the 252 cases.
- sourced-articles.json, case-files-manifest.json: 188 new UNTRIMMED
  blocks. 179 cases gained at least one fetched article; 73 got none
  (49 BLOCKED, 18 THIN, 9 DEAD, 4 video/social, 3 ERROR).
- sources/*.txt: rebuilt with build_cases.py --all. Sheet pastes are
  kept; fetched blocks sit beside them under the NOT YET TRIMMED banner.
  Files previously committed with CRLF are now LF.
- wayback-availability.json: Wayback snapshots exist for 73 of the 98
  failed URL slots; input for an archive-fetch pass.
- README-START-HERE.md: progress note and next step.

verify_all.py PASSES (1836 checks).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GZZENdTLzNGsbNy4DyF1yt
2026-09-05 15:02:39 +02:00

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CASE 005 | Dwayne Richards | May 27, 2015 | USA
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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
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
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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
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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.
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FETCHED ARTICLE 1 [RAW EXTRACT — NOT YET TRIMMED]
!! This is the whole page as extracted. It still contains site furniture,
!! and may contain teaser headlines for UNRELATED cases. Trim on read-through.
!! Do not quote from it without checking the passage belongs to this case.
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 ALL 18 paragraphs, untrimmed
Length 2,607 chars
Integrity sha256 6329ca4d532ecb01a11e8a517519bcc75875d65e0e9d4b41e9d48efdf273202a
Trimmed NOT TRIMMED. Full page extract; trim on read-through.
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.
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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.
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.
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