Event promoter Ryan Chapell wouldn’t budge — then the guns came out.

Chapell refused to refund half the $50,000 that self-proclaimed crypto “godfather” Adam Iza had paid for his 21st birthday gala.

Things went downhill from there.

Iza allegedly turned loose his hired thugs, gun-toting, badge-wearing Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies who took Chapell’s cellphone at gunpoint and stole thousands from his online bank account, and then framed Chapell on drug charges and falsely obtained a search warrant to trash his West Los Angeles home ostensibly in search of fentanyl and cocaine. They found none.

Federal authorities cracked Iza’s illegal operation, recently securing guilty pleas or agreements to plead guilty from three of the former deputies, Iza and his girlfriend. Chapell now is su

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