OCALA, Fla. – A Florida man recently lost more than $450,000 in a romance-turned-investment scam spanning across Florida and as far as Massachusetts.

The man thought that money was gone forever; he was so sure, in fact, that he never even filed a police report, investigators said.

Then, members of the Marion County Sheriff’s Office knocked on his door with a message: We found your money.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said during a news conference on Tuesday in Ocala that the man was one of a group of victims who were part of a case that ended with a record-breaking $5.4 million in cryptocurrency recovered.

Uthmeier said the investigation by the Office of Statewide Prosecution’s Cyber Fraud Enforcement Unit (CFEU) resulted in…