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

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John Woeltz, 37, was taken into custody Friday after the victim escaped from a luxury Manhattan townhouse and stopped an officer on the street.

A second suspect was arrested in connection with a twisted kidnapping and torture plot that played out inside a luxury New York City townhouse that was all over stolen Bitcoin, prosecutors said ...

Cyrpto kings John Woeltz, 37, and his alleged accomplice, William Duplessie, 33, are known for dropping $100,000 in a single night partying it up at an exclusive erotic nightclub.

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 ...

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John Woeltz was arrested on May 23, court records show. According to a criminal complaint filed in Manhattan criminal court, an unnamed man told New York City police that Woeltz and another man ...

A Kentucky man, 37-year-old John Woeltz, was arrested in Lower Manhattan over the weekend, accused of kidnapping and torturing an Italian tourist.

Police in Manhattan arrested Kentucky native John Woeltz, 37, alleging he kidnapped a man and tortured him for weeks to get his Bitcoin password.

John Woeltz, 37, was taken into custody the same day and charged in the alleged kidnapping and torture scheme. It was not immediately clear whether Duplessie has retained a lawyer.

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