Two cryptocurrency investors, who are charged in connection with the alleged weeks-long torture of an Italian tourist in an upscale Manhattan townhouse, allegedly held two other victims against their ...

John Woeltz rented the Prince Street townhouse in Nolita where the alleged kidnapping and torture took place.

A second cryptocurrency investor was arrested this week in connection with torturing a 28-year-old Italian tourist in an effort to obtain his Bitcoin password.

Woeltz has been charged with second-degree assault, kidnapping, imprisonment and criminal possession of a firearm Cryptocurrency investor John Woeltz has been charged after police claim he ...

Police believe Duplessie helped cryptocurrency trader John Woeltz, 37, allegedly imprison and torture the 28-year-old victim for 17 days. Duplessie has a primary residence in Miami, according to cops.

The investor, 37-year-old John Woeltz, and another man abused their victim for three weeks in a Manhattan townhouse as they tried to get his Bitcoin password, prosecutors say.

John Woeltz, 37, and William Duplessie, 33 -- have since been indicted by a grand jury on a dozen counts, including kidnapping, assault and coercion.

NYPD police officers remove John Woeltz, 37 from a home on Prince St. near Mulberry St. in Manhattan on Friday, May 23, 2025, after a man claimed he was held against his will at the location ...

A cryptocurrency investor from Kentucky was arrested in Manhattan on Friday after allegedly holding an Italian businessman captive for more than two weeks in a luxury SoHo apartment. John Woeltz ...

Before they allegedly kidnapped and tortured an Italian tourist at a swanky Soho townhouse, high-rolling crypto bros John Woeltz and William Duplessie were rolling up to Manhattan’s trendiest ...

Kentucky crypto king John Woeltz has already been charged in the explosive case. Talkin asked the judge to release Duplessie on $1 million bail, claiming he would not flee the Big Apple.