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SLO County home invaders were seeking $66 million in cryptocurrency

February 7, 2026

Skylar LaPaille

By KAREN VELIE

The two San Luis Obispo County teenagers who allegedly committed a violent home invasion last Saturday were part of a plot to steal $66 million in cryptocurrency from a couple in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Posing as delivery service workers, 17-year-old Jackson Sullivan of San Luis Obispo and 16-year-old Skylar LaPaille of Morro Bay knocked on a door and then forced their way into a Scottsdale home on Jan. 31. Once inside, the teens restrained the couple with duct tape while their adult son hid and called 9-1-1.

Officers arrived to find the woman screaming and a teen assaulting the man. The teen was trying to force the man to give up the cryptocurrency.

The teens then fled through the backdoor and drove away. Officers arrested the teens a short time afterwards.

Jackson Sullivan

LaPaille told detectives he had met Sullivan a month earlier.

Investigators believe the teenagers were extorted by individuals known only as “Red” and “8” they met on the Signal app. “Red” and “8” allegedly sent the teens $1,000 to purchase supplies for disguises and restraining devices.

Officers arrested the teens, who they plan to charge as adults, for kidnapping, burglary, criminal impersonation, disorderly conduct, felony flight and three counts of aggravated assault.

In addition, officers report the teens were in possession of a 3D-printed gun, though it contained no ammunition and may not function.

Officers booked both teens into Durango Juvenile Detention Facility in Maricopa County. They have since both been released on $50,000 bonds with ankle monitors.

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Charged as adults with a half dozen felonies each and bail is just $50,000?!?! Unbelievable. What has happened to our courts and Justice system in the last 15 years?


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Unaffordability . That’s what happened .


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These two juveniles are just that, juveniles not adults. What they did is not acceptable but to charge them as adults is also not okay. Isn’t this an opportunity for the juvenile judicial system to rehab and try to put these two on a better life path—none of us know their family history or circumstances. It feels like there is more to this story.


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I guess they are not brown enough for the usual maga brain trust to get all excited about. Come on people. Post in all caps! Tell us how patriotic you are? Any fake political quotes?

You guys are disappointing. But you already have been told that.


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When there’s a fire in your kitchen do you go and start a fire in all the other rooms?


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you do if you want to get rid of the house …


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Yep, exactly… Open border globalists trying to destroy America


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It seem just to ironic that these two boys commit this home invasion within the same time frame as nancy guthrie’s abduction and held for ransom for crypto currency, same thing these two boys were after.


I could be wrong but I suspect there is link between this crime and the Nancy Guthrie abduction. We’ll all know soon.


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Good point ! You never known where this might lead. These two suspects could be, the next “Columbine High School “. Schools need to be on high alert . Where are the Liberal parents? Probably protesting .


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