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John Woeltz, 37, and William Duplessie, 33 -- face kidnapping, assault and unlawful imprisonment charges in the case.
Photos obtained by TMZ reveal a wild scene inside the Soho townhouse where Italian crypto investor Michael Carturan was ...
An alleged accomplice in the NYC crypto kidnapping case in SoHo turned himself in to authorities Tuesday morning, police say.
A second suspect surrendered to police Tuesday morning in the harrowing case of a cryptocurrency trader who was allegedly ...
A third individual, suspected of being connected to the recent kidnapping, torture and attempted extortion of an Italian ...
William Duplessie, 33, owed hundreds of thousands of dollars on luxury homes and cars in Florida and wracked up criminal ...
The high-profile Bitcoin kidnapping case​ was back before a judge in Manhattan on Wednesday, but proceedings were put on hold ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A cryptocurrency investor has been arrested and charged with kidnapping a man and keeping him locked up for weeks in an upscale Manhattan apartment, where authorities say he was ...
The 37-year-old Woeltz, the so-called "crypto king," allegedly ... After arriving in New York City on May 6, the victim was kidnapped and held inside the townhouse on Prince Street.
The New York assault is the latest addition in a growing list of violent attempts to steal crypto through physical coercion.
NEW YORK -- A cryptocurrency dispute led to the alleged kidnapping and torture of an ... "From what we know now, this was a dispute over crypto money," NYPD Chief John Chell told reporters.