A former Los Angeles Police Department officer was convicted Monday of taking $350,000 worth of cryptocurrency from a 17-year-old in a 2024 home invasion robbery.

Witnesses in the two week trial described how Eric Halem and three other men posed as police serving a search warrant to enter a high-rise apartment in Koreatown rented by a teenager who had amassed a small fortune in crypto.

Prosecutors said the 17-year-old — sworn-in to testify under just his first name, Daniel — gave up a hard drive containing Bitcoin after Halem and his alleged accomplices threatened to kill him.

After deliberating for less than a full day, a Los Angeles County Superior Court jury found Halem guilty of kidnapping and robbery. He is scheduled to be…