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Eric Halem, a former LAPD officer, and Gabby Ben, alleged by prosecutors to have ‘ties to the Israeli mafia,’ were denied bail Friday.

The two men are accused of pretending to serve a police search warrant and using threats of violence to coerce a teenager into emptying a digital wallet full of cryptocurrency.

Both have pleaded not guilty. Halem’s attorney said her client faces danger in jail: ‘He worries he is going to be killed because he was a cop.’

One night last December, six men met at a home in the Hollywood Hills to plot a kidnapping, prosecutors say.

Their alleged target was a 17-year-old operator of a cryptocurrency business. His abductors, authorities charge, included

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