Michael DeChellis

Deputy Sheriff/Financial Crimes Investigator - Douglas County Sheriff's Office

Deputy Michael DeChellis has been employed by the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office for 19 years and has worked in criminal investigations for the past eight years. His primary work focuses on financial crimes, including bank fraud conspiracies and US- and non-US-based scams. As the Bitcoin ATM fraud epidemic has grown into a national crisis in recent years, Dep. DeChellis and his fellow investigators have gained insight into the industry that is perpetrating this fraud, the methods by which blockchain technology can be used to identify suspects and, on some occasions, recover assets, and the ways that existing state laws written before blockchain technology existed can be leveraged to achieve law enforcement objectives.

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