Patrick Yarmoch (FBI Agent — Crypto Theft)
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Patrick Steven Yarmoch (also spelled Yaroch in some filings), a former FBI supervisory special agent assigned to the Counterintelligence and Espionage Division, was arrested on July 31, 2026, and charged by criminal complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia with interstate transportation of stolen property and receipt of stolen property. Prosecutors allege he accessed seed phrases stored in FBI intelligence systems during a national security investigation and transferred approximately $925,426 in cryptocurrency from wallets tied to a foreign adversary into accounts under his personal control. The case was at the criminal complaint stage as of August 2026; no conviction or guilty plea had been entered at that time.
Connected Entities
5 entities · 60 linked investigations- Trezor→mentioned with→Bitcoin(65%)
- Patrick Yarmoch (FBI Agent — Crypto Theft)→mentioned with→Kraken(70%)
- Kraken→mentioned with→Bitcoin(70%)
- Patrick Yarmoch (FBI Agent — Crypto Theft)→mentioned with→Trezor(60%)
- Patrick Yarmoch (FBI Agent — Crypto Theft)→mentioned with→Bitcoin(60%)
- Patrick Yarmoch (FBI Agent — Crypto Theft)→mentioned with→Sui(65%)
Connected Through
5 shared actors · 563 investigationsDistinct actors this investigation shares with others — holders, traders, and named parties. Shared infrastructure (exchanges, pools) is excluded.
- ♦Bitcointoken
- □Krakenorganization
- □Trezororganization
- □Suiorganization
Timeline(12 events)
2017
Patrick Steven Yarmoch joins the FBI, assigned to the Boston Field Division's national security squad (approximate year).
NBC News2025
Yarmoch transfers to FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., joining the Counterintelligence and Espionage Division with Top Secret clearance (approximate date).
CoinPaper2025
Alleged transfers of cryptocurrency from investigation-linked wallets to personal wallets begin (approximate start date per criminal complaint).
NBC News14 May 2026
Yarmoch allegedly travels to Germany without reporting the trip to the FBI as required by security protocols.
NBC Washington25 May 2026
Yarmoch allegedly returns to Washington, D.C. from Portugal without reporting that trip to the FBI.
NBC Washington28 May 2026
Yarmoch allegedly queries ChatGPT asking how to invest approximately $1 million and how to relocate to an EU country, per recovered device evidence cited in the affidavit.
Decrypt23 July 2026
Approximately $1.02 million is allegedly transferred into Suilend (a DeFi lending protocol on the Sui blockchain) via the Slush wallet application.
CoinPaper28 July 2026
Yarmoch contacts a DOJ National Security Division employee via Signal and meets with FBI headquarters personnel to disclose the transfers, allegedly admitting he had 'screwed up.'
NBC News31 July 2026
Yarmoch is arrested at his Ashburn, Virginia residence. The recovered cryptocurrency — approximately $925,426.07 — is transferred to government-controlled wallets.
DecryptAugust 2026
Criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Yarmoch's FBI employment is terminated on the same date. U.S. Magistrate Judge Lindsey R. Vaala orders temporary detention.
NBC News4 August 2026
Detention hearing scheduled in Alexandria, Virginia. Reporting indicates a judge considered releasing Yarmoch to parental custody but stayed the order pending further proceedings.
NBC WashingtonDecision Log
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This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (3 decisions). 10 of 11 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.
model: claude-sonnet-4-6
generated: 8/22/2026, 11:10:58 PM
last updated: 8/25/2026, 3:17:37 AM
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