Yelo (yelotree)
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anchored·4VR9xS…9hb6Summary
Yelo, known online as @yelotree, is a crypto key opinion leader (KOL) and former professional Fortnite esports player with approximately 180,000 Twitter followers who also operated a luxury car rental business in Miami. As of May 2026, Yelo faces federal criminal charges alleging he laundered funds stolen from cryptocurrency holders through that rental business, with a potential sentence of up to 30 years. Separately, Yelo participated in undisclosed paid promotion of the Sharpei memecoin on Solana in October 2024, which subsequently suffered a documented rug pull that erased 96% of its market value.
Connected Entities
5 entities · 60 linked investigations- FUzmXL…8AiX→mentioned with→Yelo (yelotree)(50%)
- EbRNSU…BAGS→mentioned with→Yelo (yelotree)(50%)
- Yelo (yelotree)→mentioned with→ZachXBT(70%)
- Yelo (yelotree)→mentioned with→Solana(70%)
Timeline(6 events)
August 2018
Yelo begins producing regular Fortnite content and competing professionally, later joining FaZe Clan and Luminosity Gaming.
PANews / ZachXBT reportingJuly 2024
Yelotree is alleged to have received payment from the Sharpei memecoin project for promotional services, approximately three months before the token's public launch.
Decrypt23 October 2024
Sharpei (SHAR) launches on Solana and reaches a reported $54 million market cap through influencer promotion. Yelotree posts about the project without disclosing prior payment. The token collapses 96.3% in approximately two seconds; $3.4 million is extracted via coordinated insider wallets.
Decrypt14 March 2026
185 BTC (approximately $13 million) is stolen from a victim via social engineering. Funds are subsequently traced through a network including co-conspirators Dritan Kapllani Jr. and Trenton Johnson.
Cryptopolitan / CryptoPotato11 May 2026
US federal authorities unseal a criminal complaint against Trenton Johnson (also identified as Trenton Richard David Johnston) in connection with the 185 BTC theft, charging him with offenses carrying up to 40 years in prison.
CryptoTimes12 May 2026
Blockchain investigator ZachXBT publicly identifies Dritan Kapllani Jr. as an alleged co-conspirator in the $19 million social engineering theft network and simultaneously reports that Yelo (@yelotree) has been criminally charged for allegedly laundering stolen funds through his Miami luxury car rental business, facing up to 30 years in prison.
ZachXBT on X / Cryptopolitan / PANewsDecision Log
- slot 457489733 · hash HEMxHYwEnMsYD9aaFazVo9sd4S7T1aCPzE8Ktirn5E3q
- slot 425420516 · hash CsQKMYuUenL6Mtgymxi1y66XEm2BseHrwaJfjhBExMch
- slot 425420514 · hash 8zhT4rmw8dRJMbuokDDx9VBmzGWthnZC5UcQTbfTDnAc
- slot 424319666 · hash GKZegsnVa49vUfoJCaD4izga9Y4PQRTMbXX1UEy22Kmz
This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (4 decisions). 13 of 16 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.
model: claude-sonnet-4-6
generated: 6/4/2026, 8:52:59 PM
last updated: 6/4/2026, 8:52:59 PM
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