MARION, Ind. (WISH) — The Grant County Sheriff’s Office on Monday touted its recovery of 1,000 stolen Bitcoin mining machines valued at $700,000 and, in the same investigation, its efforts to stop the attempted theft of $75,000 worth of frozen turkeys.
The theft of the Bitcoin mining machines was reported Oct. 2, 2025, when a shipment from “Your Choice Ever Best” Bitcoin Mining Operation in Grant County was hijacked. Detectives tracked the stolen cargo to the Chicago area and conducted an undercover operation to recover the equipment, with the helpl of the Chicago Police Department and Marion, Indiana, Police Department detectives.
The effort was announced in a Monday Facebook post from the Grant County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page.
The post said, “The investigation is on-going (sic) and at this time, and no arrest has been made as this also involved international criminal participant.”
Grant County, with nearly 66,400 residents, is about a 90-minute drive northeast of downtown Indianapolis.
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