Two cryptocurrency investors, who are charged in connection with the alleged weeks-long torture of an Italian tourist in an upscale Manhattan townhouse, allegedly held two other victims against their ...

John Woeltz, 37, has been jailed since his arrest Friday outside the luxury rental. He was taken into custody in his bathrobe. Woeltz was ordered held without bail after his hearing Thursday.

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.

John Woeltz, 37, was arrested on Friday, May 23, ... The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office told the outlet that Woeltz is being held without bail.

The investor, 37-year-old John Woeltz, and another man abused their victim for three weeks in a Manhattan townhouse as they tried to get his Bitcoin password, prosecutors say.

John Woeltz is arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court on May 24. (Curtis Means/POOL) Tisch refuted reports that Duplessie surrendered after partying in the Hamptons over Memorial Day Weekend.

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

NYPD police officers remove John Woeltz, 37 from a home on Prince St. near Mulberry St. in Manhattan on Friday, May 23, 2025, after a man claimed he was held against his will at the location.

A cryptocurrency investor from Kentucky was arrested in Manhattan on Friday after allegedly holding an Italian businessman captive for more than two weeks in a luxury SoHo apartment.. John Woeltz ...

Before they allegedly kidnapped and tortured an Italian tourist at a swanky Soho townhouse, high-rolling crypto bros John Woeltz and William Duplessie were rolling up to Manhattan’s trendiest ...

John Woeltz is arraigned at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 24, 2025. Michael Nagle. Security footage captured the Italian crypto dealer and his alleged captor John Woeltz walking the streets of ...