A report from Morgan and Morgan Law Firm says that a Fayette County jury awarded a 59-year-old man a $1.5 million verdict after he was injured at a Lexington Walmart in 2021.

Already recognized as the fastest-growing large city in Kentucky as well as the second best place to live in the state, Elizabethtown now has been recognized by World Atlas as one of the nicest and ...

When a bloodied man ran from a townhouse in an affluent New York neighbourhood, he revealed a complex and grisly tale of alleged cryptocurrency kidnapping.

Months before being charged with kidnapping and torturing a man over Bitcoin in Soho, John Woeltz was involved in another incident in Paducah, Kentucky.

months before John Woeltz's arrest in Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood. "She says her son's being held for ransom," the employee at the hotel in Paducah, Kentucky, said to police. Son sent texts for help ...

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

Woeltz, 37, has described himself in interviews as a blockchain investor who spent time in Silicon Valley before returning to Kentucky’s burgeoning crypto-mining industry.

Suspects in New York City crypto torture case plead not guilty to kidnapping and assault John Woeltz and William Duplessie were ordered held without bail.

New York police officers arrest John Woeltz, Friday, May 23, 2025, in New York, who was charged with kidnapping, assaulting and holding a man against his will for several weeks in an upscale Manhattan ...

New York City cops joined federal officials and Kentucky State Police to go through a property belonging to cryptocurrency investor John Woeltz and his associate William Duplessie, according to TMZ.

Who is John Woeltz? Authorities believe Woeltz is a big-name cryptocurrency trader from Kentucky with an estimated worth around $100 million; sources said the victim is worth an estimated $30 million.