{"id":103178,"date":"2026-06-15T04:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T04:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=103178"},"modified":"2026-06-15T04:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T04:18:11","slug":"we-smacked-a-185-bitcoin-target-canadian-teen-pleads-guilty-in-13-million-crypto-fraud-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=103178","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We Smacked A 185 Bitcoin Target:&#8217; Canadian Teen Pleads Guilty In $13 Million Crypto Fraud Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A Canadian teenager accused of stealing millions in cryptocurrency and financing a luxury lifestyle with the proceeds has pleaded guilty to money laundering charges in U.S.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What Happened<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Trenton Johnston, a 20-year-old Canadian citizen, pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Miami to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.<\/p>\n<p>According to prosecutors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/10\/world\/canada\/canada-crypto-fraud.html\">cited<\/a> by The New York Times, Johnston participated in a cryptocurrency fraud operation over a two-year period.<\/p>\n<p>Court filings allege Johnston impersonated representatives from Google and cryptocurrency companies to gain access to victims\u2019 accounts before stealing their funds.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say the proceeds financed an extravagant lifestyle that included luxury vehicles, jewelry, nightclub spending and private jet travel.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Alleged Scheme<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Homeland Security investigators said Johnston entered the U.S. from Canada &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/06\/53185703\/we-smacked-a-185-bitcoin-target-canadian-teen-pleads-guilty-in-13-million-crypto-fraud-case?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"'We\" smacked a bitcoin target: canadian teen pleads guilty in million crypto fraud case>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Canadian teenager accused of stealing millions in cryptocurrency and financing a luxury lifestyle with the proceeds has pleaded guilty to money laundering charges in U.S. What Happened Trenton Johnston, a 20-year-old Canadian citizen, pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Miami to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. According to prosecutors cited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-103178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}