US EditionNYPD probing detectives who worked security at house where man says he was tortured: AP News
- Two New York detectives, one assigned to Mayor Eric Adams’ security detail, have been placed on modified duty amid a kidnapping and torture investigation in Manhattan's Soho on May 6.
- Authorities accuse John Woeltz and William Duplessie, both involved in cryptocurrency, of coercing a 28-year-old Italian man by threatening his family to gain access to his Bitcoin holdings.
- The victim reported 17 days of captivity involving severe beatings, electric shocks, forced drug use, and being dangled five stories high, while one detective reportedly drove him from the airport to the townhouse.
- Prosecutors found cocaine, weapons, body armor, and photos of the victim threatened at gunpoint in the townhouse, and Woeltz was jailed pending trial with a denied $2 million bond request.
- Internal Affairs investigates the detectives’ unauthorized private security work and connections to the suspects, while Mayor Adams and officials deny any knowledge of the officers' off-duty actions or crypto suspects.
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NYPD probing detectives who worked security at house where man says he was tortured
NEW YORK — New York City police are investigating two detectives who worked security at an upscale Manhattan townhouse where a man says he was kidnapped and tortured for weeks by two crypto investors who wanted to steal his Bitcoin,…
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