Brief Summary: An elderly couple in North Carolina were tricked and threatened by two men pretending to be construction workers. These bad guys, called Elmer Ruben Castro and Remy Ra St. Felix, pretended to check their house for pipe issues, but instead, they forced their way inside and scared the couple by tying them up and threatening to harm them. Another bad guy, Jarod Gabriel Seemungal, had helped find this couple for them. Castro and St. Felix made the husband log into his online account where he kept a kind of digital money called cryptocurrency. With instructions from Seemungal on the phone, they took about $156,000 from the husband's account. Afterwards, they smashed the couple's computer and phones and left them tied up in the bathroom. The couple managed to escape and get help from their neighbor. The police have proof of the bad guys planning the robbery and have charged Seemungal and St. Felix with kidnapping. They are still looking for Castro.
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