US EditionSecond crypto investor charged in alleged kidnapping, torture for Bitcoin access
- On May 6, cryptocurrency investors John Woeltz and William Duplessie kidnapped and tortured a man in a Manhattan Soho townhouse.
- They threatened to kill the victim's family to coerce him into revealing his computer password for access to his Bitcoin holdings.
- The victim was held captive for 17 days, during which his captors drugged, shocked, and dangled him from a five-story staircase before he escaped bloodied and shoeless on a Friday morning.
- During a search of the townhouse, authorities found cocaine, a saw, rolls of chicken wire, protective gear, night vision equipment, various rounds of ammunition, and polaroid pictures showing the victim with a firearm aimed at his head.
- Woeltz remains jailed after bail denial despite his attorney citing a clean record and tech success, while Duplessie awaits indictment, highlighting growing violence against cryptocurrency holders.
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Two indicted in NYC crypto kidnapping, torture case
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Second man indicted in violent New York kidnapping crypto case
NEW YORK - A second man has been indicted in New York after being charged with kidnapping a man for three weeks in Manhattan's upscale SoHo neighborhood, shocking him with electric wires, and dangling him over a staircase to try to get him to give up his bitcoin password, prosecutors said on Friday. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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A second cryptocurrency investor was arrested this week in connection with torturing a 28-year-old Italian tourist in an effort to obtain his Bitcoin password.
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