US government contractor accused of stealing $46M arrested on small island, FBI announces

U.S. and French authorities arrested a erstwhile U.S. authorities contractor accused of stealing $46 cardinal successful cryptocurrency, the FBI announced connected Thursday.

FBI Director Kash Patel highlighted the apprehension successful a connection connected X, saying the apprehension of John Daghita connected the land of St. Martin was a associated cognition betwixt the FBI and the French Gendarmerie.

"Last night, John Daghita – a U.S. authorities contractor who allegedly stole much than $46 cardinal successful cryptocurrency from the U.S Marshals Service – was arrested connected the land of Saint Martin by the French Gendarmerie’s premier elite tactical portion successful a associated cognition with the FBI," Patel wrote.

"Thanks to the International Cooperation Team Serious Crime Unit of the French Gendarmerie National successful Saint Martin, and the Groupe d’intervention de la Gendarmerie nationale of Guadeloupe for the outstanding coordination," helium continued.

The FBI arrested John Daghita successful the Caribbean connected Wednesday, March 4, 2026. (FBI)

"FBI volition proceed moving 24/7 with our planetary partners to way down, apprehend, and bring to justness those who effort to defraud American taxpayers—no substance wherever they effort to hide," helium added.

Daghita's recently-deleted LinkedIn leafage said helium worked for Command Services & Support, a Virginia-based steadfast tally by his father, Dean Daghita, according to the New York Post. The institution held contracts with the U.S. Marshalls Service that allowed them to negociate integer currency seized by the instrumentality enforcement agency.

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FBI Director Kash Patel announced Daghita's apprehension connected Thursday. (Daniel Heuer/AFP via Getty Images)

Authorities who carried retired the apprehension recovered a briefcase afloat of currency arsenic good arsenic aggregate USB drives.

Daghita's apprehension comes astir a period aft authorities successful Arizona arrested 2 California teens successful an Arizona location penetration tied to an alleged $66 cardinal cryptocurrency plot.

The teens, who are not being identified by Fox News Digital due to the fact that they are some nether the property of 18, allegedly posed arsenic transportation drivers to summation entree to the Scottsdale location connected Jan. 31, earlier forcing their mode wrong and duct-taping and assaulting 2 homeowners inside.

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During the location invasion, 1 of the victims denied having cryptocurrency, authorities said. An big lad successful the location was capable to telephone constabulary from different room. When officers arrived, the teenagers fled but were aboriginal caught and arrested.

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