A grand jury has indicted a 37-year-old cryptocurrency investor accused of kidnapping a business partner in Manhattan's ...

Woeltz's supposed assistant, Beatrice Folchi, 24, was also taken into custody in relation to the crime and faces one count of ...

A second suspect surrendered to police Tuesday morning in the harrowing case of a cryptocurrency trader who was allegedly ...

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An Italian man escaped a New York City apartment where he says he was kidnapped and tortured for weeks over a Bitcoin ...

John Woeltz also faces charges including unlawful ... but came to a head when the Italian arrived early in the month. After arriving in New York City on May 6, Woeltz and Duplessie allegedly ...

Sources said cryptocurrency investor John Woeltz took the man's passport, tied him up, tortured and photographed him until ...

Learn more about the NYC crypto torture case and the men charged with holding the victim captive in a bid to steal his money.

Prosecutors allege Duplessie and Woeltz held an Italian national hostage for 17 days in a Soho townhouse to force access to a ...

John Woeltz, 37, has been jailed since his arrest Friday outside the luxury rental. He was taken into custody in his bathrobe. Woeltz was ordered held without bail after his hearing Thursday.

Woeltz has been charged with second-degree assault, kidnapping, imprisonment and criminal possession of a firearm ...

John Woeltz and William Duplessie, the two men arrested for allegedly kidnapping and assaulting Italian tourist Michael ...