George Jones’ widow, Nancy Jones, is reportedly the sufferer of a multi-million greenback cryptocurrency theft.
The story continues to be unfolding, however as of now, it appears like Nancy Jones had thousands and thousands of {dollars} in crypto and tons of of 1000’s of {dollars} in money stolen proper from her residence. The excellent news? The Franklin Police Division has already arrested the suspect that’s accused of being the thief.
58-year-old Kirk West – the ex-boyfriend of Nancy Jones.
Based on studies, Jones reported the lacking cash and cryptocurrency to the police in Franklin, Tennessee, on July 23. In her preliminary submitting, she estimated that the thief had made off with round $400,000 in money, and a Ledger cryptocurrency pockets that was stowed in considered one of her safes. Nancy Jones believes the cash and the cryptocurrency was stolen from her round June 26, and accused Kirk West of doing it.
Jones apparently had her granddaughter come to her residence on June 26 to assist safe money and jewellery that she had locked away. The nation legend’s widow had suspicions that her longtime romantic associate in Kirk West was dishonest on her, and suspected that he may need additionally stolen from her protected.
Positive sufficient, Jones’ granddaughter found that just about half-a-million {dollars} was lacking from the protected, and the Ledger pockets was lacking fully. Experiences say that there have been 5,534,307 models of XRP (a digital foreign money) on the pockets. As a result of cryptocurrency usually fluctuates, that interprets to be about $11.5 million on the presumed date of theft, and simply over $17 million on July 25.
Police instantly opened an investigation after Nancy Jones filed her report, and shortly discovered that Kirk West was the one particular person apart from Jones who had a personal key to entry the crypto pockets. George Jones’ widow was capable of recuperate 5,051,102 XRP with the assistance of attorneys, however finally misplaced the remainder of what she owned – which is valued at round $1.5 million.
Franklin Police had been additionally capable of uncover further details about Jones and West’s relationship, most significantly that Nancy had just lately kicked her long-time associate out of the home on the finish of June, and so they had damaged up. Some studies counsel that Kirk West referred to as Nancy Jones and mentioned he’d ship again $5 million of her cryptocurrency again to her, however that was “all that he’d do.”
Lower than 24 hours after the Franklin Police Division opened their investigation into the incident, they tracked down Kirk West and arrested him. He was taken into custody on the Nashville Worldwide Airport on Thursday, July 24. He was hit with a cost of “Theft over $250,000,” and West’s bail was set at $1 million. His courtroom date has been scheduled for October 23.
All in all, it’s a tragic scenario for Nancy Jones, nevertheless it seems like she and her household had been capable of catch issues early sufficient to the place it wasn’t a complete loss. It’s effectively documented that she helped flip George Jones’ life round after they had been married in 1983.
She was decided to avoid wasting him from his ingesting and drug-use methods, and was lastly capable of persuade Jones to surrender ingesting in 1999. There’s a great probability that Jones – who’s maiden identify is Sepulvado – helped lengthen his life, and on the very least, helped make his remaining years extra “on the rails,” so to talk.
Nancy insists that he thrived in the course of the sober portion of his life, and in addition was higher at retaining commitments. They stayed collectively till he died on April 26, 2013 on the age of 81.
