The intruder was unrecognizable in ski goggles and a hood—but he seemed to know exactly what he wanted from the victim when he bound her in duct tape and forced her to relinquish a fortune in digital currency.
Two months later—in an investigation that took authorities from that home invasion in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights neighborhood to Taiwan—police are saying the masked man targeted a former employer at knifepoint to pilfer $3 million in cryptocurrency.
The story made international headlines after SFPD announced over the weekend how an international manhunt, with help from the FBI, led them to extradite Tianze Zhang, 30.
Here’s what we gleaned about the case from Chinese-language coverage:
Zhang is now jailed in San Francisco while the District Attorney’s Office decides how to charge him.