Former LAPD officer Eric Halem was sentenced to life plus 15 years for robbing a teenager of $350,000 in Bitcoin. Despite the recent run of violent crypto activities, the sentence is one of the stiffest punishments that have been handed down so far. Who bagged a life sentence for a crypto crime? Eric Halem, 38, has been sentenced to concurrent life terms for kidnapping and robbery by the Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mildred Escobedo. Under the sentence, Halem becomes eligible for parole after seven years.