I love to see these retard crooks get busted trying to use monero !!!
If nothing else it supports the fact police do not need financial transparency to do their job.
Should Have Stuck to Hacking
The criminal complaint against St. Felix suggests that identifying him as the ringleader of the crypto-focused home invasion crew wasn't particularly hard. Cell tower records placed his phone at the location of the Durham break-in. Bank records show his checking account purchases from Walmart of the construction worker outfit he would wear during the robbery. Google cloud storage records show screenshots of the reconnaissance he carried out in targeting his Durham victim.
The FBI's analysis of St. Felix's cryptocurrency transactions found that he used the instant exchanger FixedFloat to swap bitcoin and ethereum stolen from the North Carolina man for Monero, a cryptocurrency designed to be difficult to trace, and then back to ethereum. But because he carried out those swaps in a single web session, prosecutors were able to subpoena FixedFloat for its records and show that the sender and recipient were almost certainly the same person, despite his attempts at obfuscation. “FixedFloat basically connected the beginning and end points of the tunnel,” says Chris Janczewski, head of global investigations at cryptocurrency tracing firm TRM Labs, which published an analysis of the case. “It doesn't matter what you do in between if you can connect the inputs and outputs.”
https://www.wired.com/story/crypto-home-invasion-crime-ring/
