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Second Suspect Charged With Kidnapping, Assault in Crypto Torture Case

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Crypto Torture Caper
Second Suspect Held With out Bail
… Allegedly Tortured, Imprisoned Sufferer

Revealed Could 28, 2025 5:24 AM PDT

The second suspect in NYC’s infamous crypto torture caper is now cooling his heels behind bars after being hit with formal fees by the Manhattan District Legal professional’s Workplace.

Prosecutors filed a legal court docket grievance Tuesday in Manhattan Prison Courtroom, charging Bitcoin entrepreneur William Duplessie with a number of felonies — kidnapping, assault, illegal imprisonment and legal possession of a weapon.


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At his arraignment Tuesday night, Duplessie was ordered held with out bail after prosecutors requested the decide to remand him because of the severity of the crimes.


In keeping with the legal grievance, Duplessie and his alleged cohort, John Woeltz, lured their enterprise associate, Michael Valentino Teofrasto Carturan, to their fancy Soho townhouse earlier this month.

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Police say the three males had been concerned in a Bitcoin enterprise that went awry after Duplessie and Woeltz seized Carturan’s digital gadgets and passport contained in the townhouse on Could 6.

For the subsequent three weeks, Duplessie and Woeltz allegedly stored Carturan a prisoner whereas demanding his password to a Bitcoin pockets value hundreds of thousands.


Inside The New York City Crypto Townhouse

However, Carturan refused to cough it up even after police say his two abductors tortured him by utilizing electrical wires to shock him and pointed a gun at his head. Duplessie and Woeltz additionally allegedly hung Carturan over a ledge on the prime of a staircase, threatening to kill him if he did not flip over the password.

In keeping with the grievance, Duplessie and Woeltz went as far as to bind and tie Carturan’s wrists, insisting they might homicide his household in the event that they did not get what they wished.

#BREAKING: 2nd suspect surrenders in NYC ‘crypto king’ townhouse torture case, @MarcSantia4NY stories https://t.co/SyQVasO8lB

— NBC New York (@NBCNewYork) Could 27, 2025
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Police say Carturan managed to flee, dashing out of the townhouse and flagging down an NYPD visitors enforcement agent for assist.

Cops rapidly responded and arrested Woeltz on the scene, main him out of the residence in handcuffs with no footwear on and in his bathrobe. Prosecutors charged Woeltz with assault, kidnapping, illegal imprisonment and legal possession of a weapon. He, too, was ordered held with out bail at his arraignment.

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