A Californian man who reportedly passed himself as a 'Bitcoin billionaire' to solve nearly $ 212,000 from five-star resorts and small temporary companies in Wyoming at the court.
Kevin Michael Segal, 30, submitted a petition to Teton County Judge Melissa Owens to give him a lower bond so that he could get out of prison and save his family and ownership from the Los Angeles Wildfires, California State Daily Reports .
But the deputy lawyer of Teton County, Andrew Hardenbrook, stated, with the argument that Segal claims to have $ 2 billion in assets and finances, a bond of $ 50,000 should not be an obstacle.
He also noted that Segal has no ties with the province of Wyoming and is accused of more than a dozen crimes and three crimes – which he has not all guilty of.
However, prosecutors claim that then Segal remained in Wyoming last year, he lifted at least nine companies and individual operator.
It is said that he has occurred as a rich businessman who tries to buy millions of dollars in real estate in the area.
“I believe that Mr. Segal has just committed himself to be a Bitcoin billionaire and told everyone to lead high life,” testified detective Adam Rainey earlier this month during a provisional hearing, according to Jackson Hole News & Guide .
“He just played the game.”
Kevin Michael Segal, 30, is confronted last year with more than a dozen crimes for lighting up Wyoming companies
The Teton County Sheriff's Office Said IT Started Investigating Segal in March 2024 After It Received A Report From The Rocky Mountain Yeti Car Dealership in Jackson, Claiming Segal Agreed To Wire It $ 1500 Picker Ram Wam 2024 Dodge Dodge Dodge Never went on.
An employee of the dealer said they were trying to succeed Segal, who then wrote a check to the dealer – but that was not clear either.
After receiving the report, Sheriff Sgt. Jesse Willcox tried to detect Segal.
He discovered that Segal had stayed in the Caldera House, a five -star hotel in the village of Teton, but checked out on March 21 – six days after he had taken possession of the vehicle.
Segal 'Demolition the back' without paying an outstanding guest account and bars for a total of $ 14,870.30, a statement obtained by Cowboy State Daily claims.
At that time, Willcox then contacted a 'Legal Enforcement -related contact' on a rental properties on Spring Creek Ranch, where Segal had stayed earlier in the month, and heard that Segal was no longer a guest there either.
In the end, Rainey then took over the case about other 'fraudulent acts' popping up during the search of Willcox for the suspect, he wrote in the statement.
Court documents say that Segal had stayed in the Caldera House, a five -star hotel in the village of Teton, but 'rinsed the back' without paying an outstanding guest account and bar for a total of $ 14,870.30
“While I investigated the case, I discovered that Segal had committed various fraudulent activities and wrongly represented himself as a Bitcoin billionaire to perform his schedule of deception,” wrote Rainey.
He claimed that Segal and a friend had remained in the luxurious Amangani resort and had collected a bill of $ 2,725.76 that became unpaid when the credit card he used was fraudulent.
On Spring Creek Ranch, three cards paid Segal to pay bills of $ 16,509.60 and $ 5,728.80, also fraudulently, and a tab kept Segal kept in Mangy Moose Saloon obtained a $ 3055.28 account that became unpaid.
“There are many cards,” Rainey testified in court. “I followed them all. The damage was quite important. '
Segal is said to have misled independent operators, including a man he hired to pick up a DJI drone.
According to their agreement, the man had to buy the drone in Colorado and Segal would reimburse him, prosecutors say.
He then wrote the man a check for $ 3,281.46, which was not liberated.
He would also have used fraudulent credit cards to pay bills and obtained a tab on Mangy Moose Saloon (photo) of $ 3055.28 account that was unpaid
In another case, Ashley Watson, the owner of the mountains of groceries – who delivers groceries for people in Teton County – said that Segal used its services, but his credit card costs were canceled.
“I don't think I know what I would have done differently,” she told The News & Guide in the aftermath.
“He had a credit card and he placed an order,” she explained. “It sounds like he was a professional in this.”
Segal would even have sent a delivery person to bring his stolen dodge back to his house in Los Angeles, where records obtained by Dailymail.com show that he lives in an apartment.
The delivery person and his son then drove 'non -stop' from Wyoming to Los Angles and then went to the airport to bring their return flight back to Jackson – of which Segal reportedly said he would pay.
But when the men came to the airport, they learned that Segal had actually not bought airline tickets for them, and they were forced to spend the night in a hotel room, because Segal promised that he would cause the problem.
They eventually had to buy their own airline tickets and sent Segal a bill for $ 3,101 – which they said they took into account for the drive, fuel, aviation tickets, hotel and other travel costs.
On March 27, Segal sent the man a screenshot of a wire transfer, but never went on.
The next day an arrest warrant was issued for his arrest, in which prosecutors claimed that he stole no less than $ 211,852.37.
Segal was then returned to his house in Redondo Beach, California, with the help of the GPS system of his stolen truck, which the local police live back when they arrested him.
Authorities were eventually able to detect him using the GPS of a RAM 3500 -Pick -up of 2024 that he would have reported from a dealer
The Rocky Mountain Yeti dealer later told the researchers that it had taken a loss of $ 27,100 on the truck, including the depreciation of the Off-Lot and the costs to reclaim it.
“He was good,” Darren Allred, the head of the sale at the dealer, admitted.
Segal is now confronted with a maximum of 14 and half a year in prison and a few thousand dollars in fines.
He is back in court for a pretrial hearing in April.
Segal had previously also confronted with a civil lawsuit, which claimed that he told a family that he had shares of more than $ 340 million and a successful company to lease a Los Angeles property. According to judicial documents obtained by DailyMail.com.
That lawsuit also accuses him of reversing wire transfers and the use of fake checks to pay the family.
That case ended in a settlement in September 2023.
