A Man Poisoned His Father For Stealing Crypto Assets

We all know the saying that you will not even trust your father at this time; however, it seems that it is very difficult for fathers to trust their children these days. not true. A terrible event in the USA is a very good example of this situation.

According to the news of The Washington Post, a young man living in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, has asked his father to take over his father’s crypto assets. has poisoned appeared. Noting that his main goal was not to poison his father, but only to ‘make himself unconscious’, the young man had a drug problem and crypto assets. obsession reported to be.

Ghershony began to exhibit paranoid behavior about cryptocurrencies

24-year-old Liam Ghershony and his father raised $350,000 in after-tax cash through a crypto investment account in 2018; however, after this incident, Ghershony’s drug problems began to increase. Ghershony, who completely immersed himself in drugs, after a while, started to talk about crypto assets. to get paranoid and he started constantly saying he needed to sell crypto.

Ghershony, who wanted to confiscate the crypto asset that was worth $ 400,000 at the time, decided to kill his father on a spur of the moment. with antidepressants He decided to poison it. Ghershony, who added sedative drugs and a benzodiazepine, a drug group related to Xanax, to his father’s tea, wrote in a note that things did not have to come to this point and told his father the best. ‘retirement’ He said he would.

Ghershony, who later stated that he did not want to kill his father, but only wanted to knock him out, noted that he realized too late that his father’s resistance to these drugs was different from his own. Fortunately, Ghershony’s father was found unconscious on the ground two days after the poisoning, after 4 days of treatment at the hospital. recovered.

Ghershony sentenced to 125 days in prison

Ghershony, who did not have a previous criminal record, after reaching the agreement. first degree attack admitted the accusation. Sentenced to 125 days in prison, Ghershony spent the next two months in drug and mental health rehabilitation.

As this incident illustrates, the combination of drug addiction and a growing obsession with cryptocurrencies can be quite dangerous consequences may come out. Rehabilitation clinics, which are aware of this recently, have started to offer treatment services for people to cope with their addiction to crypto money.