'Staggering' crypto seizures have cops struggling to keep up
One spring day in a village just west of London, residents saw a man being muscled into a vehicle in front of a nearby house. He reappeared with cuts and bruises 13 hours later, but the cops had already discovered the house was a cannabis-growing operation. A separate search of the man’s home in a nearby town turned up something more intriguing — some of the first cryptocurrency that would ever be seized by British police. That era-defining 2017 case yielded a safety-deposit box containing jewelry, gold bars, £263,000 (US$342,000) in cash and an item that flummoxed the lead investigator,...