Manhattan Crypto Kidnapping and Torture Case
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They were always smoking weed at the house” — to the point that they “set off the smoke detector,” a guest said of accused Soho kidnappers John Woeltz and William
The duo was spotted there on multiple nights in a row, reportedly spending between $80,000 and $100,000 during each visit.
The headline-grabbing tale of an Italian man who said he was kidnapped and tortured for weeks inside an upscale Manhattan townhouse by captors seeking his bitcoin highlights a dark corner of the cryptocurrency world: the threat of violence by thieves seeking digital assets.
John Woeltz, the Kentucky crypto entrepreneur accused of a heinous kidnapping and torture plot is innocent — and being manipulated by someone else, a relative claimed to The Post.
The tortured and wounded victim escaped John Woeltz's house of horrors in an ordeal authorities described as “The Wolf of Wall Street” meets “American Psycho."
The so-called 'crypto bros' including Woeltz allegedly tied the victim up using electrical cords and gave him electric shock, including using a Taser while his feet were in water.
The Euro exec became a person of interest in the case after the arrest of Kentucky crypto king John Woeltz on Friday for allegedly holding wealthy trader Michael Vanlentino Teofrasto Carturan