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A New York City Police detective assigned to Mayor Eric Adams’ security detail will be questioned in relation to a bizarre crypto currency kidnapping and torture plot after he allegedly delivered the victim to his tormentors,
A grand jury has indicted a 37-year-old cryptocurrency investor accused of kidnapping a business partner in Manhattan's upscale Soho neighborhood for three weeks, shocking him with electric wires, and dangling him over a staircase to try to get him to give up his Bitcoin password,
Before they allegedly kidnapped an Italian tourist, crypto bros John Woeltz and William Duplessie were rolling up to NYC nightclubs with their own security — and looking for “Instagram
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The men are accused of luring Michael Valentino Teofrasto Carturan to the house on May 6 and holding him captive for 17 days, torturing him with pistol-whippings, using a chainsaw on his leg, shocking him and dangling him from a building.
Bravo’s Next Gen NYC hasn’t even aired yet, but the series is already making headlines. A cast member was photographed near a shocking arrest in New York City that involved John Woeltz, a cryptocurrency investor.
John Woeltz, 37, and his alleged accomplice, William Duplessie, 33, started frequenting the NYC nightclub, The Box.
The headline-grabbing tale of an Italian man who said he was kidnapped and tortured for weeks inside an upscale Manhattan townhouse by captors seeking his bitcoin highlights a dark corner of the cryptocurrency world: the threat of violence by thieves seeking digital assets.
Sources said cryptocurrency investor John Woeltz took the man's passport, tied him up, tortured and photographed him until the man managed to escape and alert authorities.