Cryptocurrency investor John Woeltz has been charged with two counts of second-degree assault and one charge each of kidnapping, imprisonment and criminal possession of a firearm after police claim he kidnapped and tortured an Italian tourist in New York City.

A wealthy crypto investor is accused of torturing a man in a ritzy Soho townhouse by electrocuting him, pistol-whipping him and forcing him to smoke cocaine.

A 37-year-old Kentucky man, known by some as the "crypto king of Kentucky," was charged with kidnapping and torturing an Italian man, accused of holding him captive inside a posh, six-story townhouse in Nolita for weeks in an attempt to get the man's Bitcoin password,