Seven people have been arrested in connection with a September home invasion robbery in Irvine, where residents were held at gunpoint and their hands and mouths duct-taped in a failed attempt to steal millions of dollars in cryptocurrency, officials announced Tuesday, Dec. 9.

The final outstanding defendant was arrested by U.S. Marshals last week in Las Vegas after a manhunt, the Orange County District Attorney’s office said.

The break-in happened around 3:30 a.m. on Sept. 23 in the 5000 block of Royale Avenue, when a sleeping man woke up to the sound of breaking glass. He had been asleep with his wife and infant son. He yelled that someone was breaking in to his brother-in-law, the homeowner, according to the district attorney’s office.

The man went downstairs to check out the noise an

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