A former Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for extorting a man inside a Bel Air mansion.

Christopher Michael Cadman, 34, of Fullerton, also staged a fraudulent traffic stop on behalf of a local cryptocurrency figure, prosecutors said. U.S. District Judge Percy Anderson ordered Cadman to pay $25,000 in restitution after he pleaded guilty in August 2025 to conspiracy against rights and subscribing to a false tax return, Brentwood News reported.

Cadman is one of five former deputies convicted in a federal probe into Adam Iza, 26, a self-styled crypto mogul who lived in Beverly Hills and Newport Beach and called himself "The Godfather." Iza hired active-duty deputies through an unlicensed private security firm, Saavedra & Associates, to intimidate people he viewed as enemies, prosecutors said.

The scheme turned violent in August 2021. Cadman and then-Deputy Scott Simpkins confronted one of Iza's rivals at Iza's Bel Air mansion, according to Patch. Simpkins held the man at gunpoint while Iza placed several rounds of live 9mm ammunition on his desk and twirled a bullet in his hand, court documents show. The victim transferred about $25,000 to an Iza-controlled account.

Both deputies were paid $1,400 in cash for the shift.

The following month, Cadman helped arrange a fraudulent traffic stop in Paramount that led to the same victim's arrest. Former deputy Michael Coberg later texted Cadman thanking him for setting it up. "The kid enjoyed it," Coberg wrote, referring to Iza, prosecutors said. Iza photographed the arrest and used the images to taunt his rival.

IRS agents confirmed Cadman pocketed at least $40,500 in unreported cash kickbacks and owed roughly $11,000 in federal taxes on income he failed to report on his 2021 return.

Cadman's sentencing adds to a string of prison terms in the case. Coberg is serving 63 months. Simpkins received 18 months in July for lying to FBI agents about the mansion extortion. Former deputy David Rodriguez received one year in July for filing a false search warrant. A fifth deputy, Eric Chase Saavedra, who ran the unlicensed security firm, pleaded guilty in February 2025 and was awaiting sentencing as of July.

Iza is already serving a 15-year federal sentence for his role in an attempted Bitcoin robbery and kidnapping in Connecticut in August 2024. He faces a separate sentencing in the California federal case on Oct. 5.

The Sheriff's Department, in a statement issued during the Rodriguez sentencing in July, called the deputies' conduct unacceptable and inconsistent with the agency's standards. Anyone with information about public corruption can contact the FBI's Los Angeles field office at (310) 477-6565.