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Jowi Morales

Authorities saw open Bitcoin ATM to recover scammed money — almost $32,000 seized from machine

Jasper County Sheriff's Office Texas.

The Sheriff in Jasper County, Texas, located a little over 100 miles northeast of Houston, used a circular saw to break into a Bitcoin ATM after determining it was used for fraud.

According to a Facebook post from the Sheriff's office, a county constituent was defrauded of $25,000 on a crypto scam, which they deposited into the machine. After securing the necessary warrants, the investigators broke open the Bitcoin ATM and seized $31,900 found inside it.

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