FBI joins the probe into the disappearance of a SoCal grandpa linked to a crypto fortune

The FBI has joined the investigation into the suspicious disappearance of 74-year-old Naiping Hou, a resident of Rancho Cucamonga and father of noted cryptocurrency investor Wen Hou. FBI officials said the agency was joining the investigation begun last year by the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. They said the joint investigation was launched about a month ago. Wen Hou could not immediately be reached for comment In an interview with The Times last year, he said he began to suspect something was wrong when he started to receive weird text messages from his father in April. He said his father…