A U.S. special forces soldier named Gannon Ken Van Dyke who was involved in the January 2026 capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was arrested for using classified information about the operation to bet on a prediction market called Polymarket, netting him over $400,000 in profits. The indictment alleges he placed $33,933 in bets just days before Trump announced Maduro's capture, then attempted to cover his tracks by deleting his account and obscuring his cryptocurrency transactions. This is the first DOJ prosecution of insider trading on a prediction market, and Van Dyke faces charges including theft of nonpublic government information and wire fraud, which could carry up to 60 years imprisonment. The case highlights emerging regulatory concerns about prediction markets like Polymarket—another trader recently made roughly $550,000 betting on the Iran conflict and Khamenei's removal, suggesting potential systemic vulnerabilities around classified military operations.