He’s reaping what he saw. Things aren’t looking good for him nor his father, a lesson both of them will painfully learn from. Father career is possibly over.

Thieves "in a vacuum" don't do this stuff. Nobody does.

This is basically a DDOS reflection attack but with government.

I'm not gonna go put a bullet in someone who over a petty dispute like this. That's unreasonable. Someone who I've wronged in doing so (i.e. someone who likes them) might put one back in me.

But say I can do something that will cause the government to do it for me at no risk to myself... That's basically what happened here.

Correct. US Marshalls have a contract with this guy’s dad to mange their crypto holdings (seized as part of investigations). Kid steals money but can’t resist showing off to friends and gets “busted”. Except the government still doesn’t appear to acknowledge a theft even occurred and the kid taunts investigators by sending them small amounts of ETH.

To be clear: the crypto in question wasn't managed in even a slightly competent manner. It was literally embezzled.