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Last month, a man posing as a food delivery driver knocked on the door of a home in Winnetka, Illinois. As soon as the resident opened up, the man and at least four others armed with guns forcibly entered the property. They demanded their victim provide access to a safe and any online accounts containing cryptocurrency. The home invasion didn’t go quite as planned; the victim escaped and the men fled with no apparent crypto theft, according to a criminal complaint and search warrant reviewed by Forbes.

Chicago rapper Lil Zay Osama, whose real name is Isaiah Dukes, has now been charged for his part in the robbery, along with five others. In 2024, he was sentenced to 14 months for possession of a machine gun. He’s pleaded not guilty to the new charges of kidnapping and violent robbery.

Police were able to ID one of the perpetrators with a novel investigative technique that took advantage of how car makers and tech giants collect data. One of the suspects had connected........

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