It turned out to be unsuccessful for the 32-year-old Florida resident Steve Manos attempt to buy Bitcoins for cash. Instead of the expected enrollment at his own expense 40 BTC, he was threatened with a knife forced to leave prepared for the completion of the transaction $ 28,000.
It is reported by local newspaper Sun Sentinel.
Living in Palm Beach Manos organized on Tuesday, July 26 meeting with two other men for the purchase of their Bitcoins worth $ 28,000.
According to him, before he had to conduct transactions with these persons, but this time something went wrong: he met with the sellers in the car near one of the restaurants and presenting cryptocurrency cash intended to buy, Manos suddenly faced with the requirement to pay the money and take legs.
The argument for the opposite side of the transaction brought a knife, threatening them with Manos. Such development of events the buyer, however, is not embarrassed, and he tried to present a more powerful counter-argument in the form of a pistol.
However, during the ensuing struggle he had to use firearms and did not, while the sellers their goal eventually achieved, leaving the battlefield is intended for the purchase of a cryptocurrency cash.
History, however, this was not the end: Manos upset by what had happened to the police by providing a telephone number on which he had previously contacted persons to rob him.
With this information, law enforcement officials were more than enough, and after a short time they managed to detain 34-year-old Andre Allen, in which Manos identified one of the robbers.
Currently, the detainee is under arrest, and he faces charges of armed robbery and assaulting. On the second participant in the robbery of the information the moment.
Also, it is unclear exactly how Steve Manos initially met with sellers kritopvalyuty rob him, but such a scenario is very typical for transactions through LocalBitcoins service. The Company regularly warns users about the need to comply with all necessary safety measures.
This is not the first such case in Florida. So, in 2014 the robbery been mayningovaya farm in Tampa. Robber was a former employee of the company, which has managed to steal not only cryptocurrency in the amount of $ 35,000 for the cost of the time, but also expensive equipment costing more than $ 150,000.
Another incident in the transaction for buying Bitcoins occurred in June 2015 in Brooklyn, where, threatening with a pistol, robbers robbed a 28-year-old man cryptocurrency in the amount of $ 1,100. The victim came to the meeting with the buyer, which earlier agreed to sell cryptocurrency online.