Current Events > Guy I know: Arrested for fake ID operation, $4.7 million in Bitcoin seized.

(+) Yeah! (+)

Went to high school with him. He was a year older than me. I would see him and talk to him at the bar every so often. People I know used to get fake IDs from him a long time ago, but still, shit is crazy.

http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2018/02/08/Man-with-UT-ties-arrested-in-connection-to-large-scale-fake-ID-operation.html

A deep entanglement of online currency, gold, and silver, and false identities appeared to unravel this week with the police seizure of $4.7 million in Bitcoin and criminal charges against two northwest Ohioans implicated in a prolific fake ID scheme.

Two people Toledoan Mark Alex Simon, 34, of the 4700 block of Stengel Drive, and Sarah M. Alberts, 34, of Perrysburg have been arrested following a multiyear investigation into the production of false identification cards.

According to a lengthy affidavit filed Tuesday by the U.S. Secret Service in U.S. District Court, agents seized from Mr. Simons Stengel Drive home approximately $4.7 million in Bitcoin a form of online currency that was contained in approximately 30 wallets stored on a USB thumb drive.

They also seized 18 gold coins, more than 200 silver coins, 21 gold and silver bars, documents relating to gold purchases, $7,000 in U.S. currency, a Bitcoin receipt, USB storage devices, identification cards not issued in Mr. Simons name, multiple computers and cell phones, and several printing-related items.


Of course he was running a sub-reddit based around making and selling fake IDs so it's not super crazy he got caught...
---

Were the Bitcoin legis his?
---

emblem boy posted...

Were the Bitcoin legis his?

as far as I can tell from the story, yes
---

shockthemonkey posted...

Of course he was running a sub-reddit based around making and selling fake IDs so it's not super crazy he got caught...

Holy shit, what a moron

---