In December 2021, Tyler Burt stopped at a gay bar for a drink. Sitting alone at the bar was the last thing he remembered before waking up the next day in his apartment fully clothed, with his shoes still on and roughly $15,000 and personal belongings stolen, Burt said. The encounter was part of a broader crime ring in which authorities said at least 16 victims, many of them gay men, were targeted from September 2021 to August 2022 at bars and nightclubs, then often drugged and robbed of thousands of dollars while they were incapacitated. One of the suspects in the drugging-and-robbery ring was sentenced to nine years in prison after pleading guilty, the most significant development in the year-old case. It provides the best insights yet into how the investigation unfolded. But it also highlights how much is still not known. Read more at the link in bio. 📷️ @vincenttullo for @NBCNews