A U.S. Army Master Sergeant involved in the raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was arrested for using classified information to make $400,000 in prediction market bets on the operation's success—placing $32,000 in late December before making 13 trades through early January. Van Dyke faces five federal charges including theft of government secrets and fraud, and allegedly funneled his winnings through cryptocurrency before depositing them in a brokerage account. The real issue is the security breach: a senior tactical leader had classified access to a covert military operation and exploited that to gamble on its outcome, raising broader questions about how classified information is protected among high-level military personnel.