Crypto influencer Ben Armstrong, beforehand often called BitBoy, has reportedly been arrested whereas live-streaming outdoors the home of a former enterprise affiliate, who he alleges is in possession of his Lamborghini.
Earlier than the YouTube stream, he posted that he was “going stay quickly from a really particular location.”
I’ll be going stay quickly from a really particular location on YouTube so prepare that is going to be good
— Ben Armstrong (@BenArmstrongsX) September 25, 2023
Lower than an hour later, Armstrong was live-streaming himself on the residence of advisor and NFT investor Carlos Diaz, who is known to have hyperlinks to the HIT Community.
Armstrong went right into a tirade claiming that Diaz “needed to kill him,” alleging his hyperlinks with the Houston mafia.
“I’m not petrified of you Carlos,” he hollered.
The complete insane 37-minute #bitboy stream ranging from Carlo’s driveway (him on his property) to him ending the stream. @HitNetwork_ @NickDimondi Insane! #crypto @AltcoinDailyio @cryptoblood_ @CryptoSavy1 @atozy pic.twitter.com/3YSd3pRLIm
— Ramekin (@iamramekin) September 26, 2023
At nearly 19 minutes into the stream, Armstrong was met with native police, who turned up and requested if Armstrong had a weapon on him, which he denied.
He was then ordered to place down the cellphone, and the stream goes clean for the remaining 17 minutes, although audio can nonetheless be heard of a dialog between Armstrong and the law enforcement officials.
In accordance with a itemizing on the Gwinnett County, Georgia, Sheriff’s Workplace, a Benjamin Charles Armstrong was booked on Sept. 25 at 9:11 pm native time and stays incarcerated.
On Sept. 26, Diaz posted a affirmation that Armstrong had turned up at his home.
Associated: BitBoy Crypto model will now not embrace YouTuber Ben Armstrong
In late August, Hit Community, which controls the “BitBoy Crypto” model, reduce ties with its public face, Ben Armstrong, citing points surrounding substance abuse and monetary harm to staff.
Since then a few lawsuits have been filed and retracted by varied events concerned. Armstrong even appealed for donations on Sept. 20 to cowl his authorized battles which riled the crypto neighborhood.
