San Francisco, San Jose, Sunnyvale, Los Angeles. 

In each city, the plan was the same: Stake out a major cryptocurrency holder, pose as a food or package courier and pull out the gun. 

Documents obtained by the Chronicle reveal evidence that police say links three attempted armed crypto robberies in the Bay Area and Los Angeles in December to a harrowing home invasion a month earlier, in which a San Francisco man was drained of $13 million worth of digital currency after members of the crime ring ordered pizzas to his home before binding him with duct tape, pistol-whipping him and threatening to cut off his fingers.

As of this week, three men from Tennessee were in custody and charged in connection with the targeting of large crypto…