FBI Agent Arrested for Allegedly Stealing $1M in Cryptocurrency

A supervisory special agent at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been arrested for allegedly stealing nearly $1 million in cryptocurrency from foreign accounts.

Patrick Steven Yaroch, who held a Top Secret clearance and worked in counterintelligence, admitted to investigators that he accessed FBI systems to retrieve keys and transfer funds to his personal wallets.

'I took matters into my own hands,' Yaroch said, citing frustration with the Bureau's perceived inability to disrupt adversarial assets. The agent conducted these unauthorized transfers approximately 10 to 12 times, co-mingling the stolen cryptocurrency with his personal assets.