John Woeltz appears in Manhattan Criminal Court Saturday. Woeltz was indicted by a grand jury on suspicion of kidnapping a business partner to steal his cryptocurrency, prosecutors said Wednesday.

A Kentucky man, 37-year-old John Woeltz, was arrested in Lower Manhattan over the weekend, accused of kidnapping and torturing an Italian tourist.

A second suspect was arrested in connection with a twisted kidnapping and torture plot that played out inside a luxury New York City townhouse that was all over stolen Bitcoin, prosecutors said ...

New York police officers arrest John Woeltz, Friday, May 23, 2025, in New York, who was charged with kidnapping, assaulting and holding a man against his will for several weeks in an upscale ...

New York police officers arrest John Woeltz, Friday, May 23, 2025, in New York, who was charged with kidnapping, assaulting and holding a man against his will for several weeks in an upscale ...

NEW YORK -- The two men charged in an alleged kidnapping and torture case in SoHo have pleaded not guilty to charges against them on Wednesday. John Woeltz, 37, and William Duplessie, 32, who ...

NEW YORK -- A crypto entrepreneur was arrested Friday after a tourist from Italy told police he was tortured in the suspect's luxury apartment in New York City for more than two weeks, according ...

An Italian man escaped a New York City apartment where he says he was kidnapped and tortured for weeks over a Bitcoin password.