The crypto king accused of kidnapping and torturing an Italian tourist for his Bitcoin password in a posh New York City pad is worth $US100 million ($A155m), according to law enforcement sources — who ...

Over the course of weeks, the victim was beaten, shocked with electric wires and hit over the head with a gun, according to a ...

A Swiss crypto millionaire sought for questioning in the gruesome torture of an Italian trader in SoHo will surrender to the ...

A wealthy crypto investor is accused of torturing a man in a ritzy Soho townhouse by electrocuting him, pistol-whipping him ...

Cryptocurrency investor John Woeltz has been charged with two counts of second-degree assault and one charge each of ...

The suspect made his initial appearance in court Saturday where he was held without bail on charges of kidnapping, assault ...

In a plot like a bad Hollywood thriller, New York police told AFP on Sunday that they arrested 37-year-old John Woeltz, a ...

John Woeltz, 37, was taken into custody Friday after the victim escaped from a luxury Manhattan townhouse and stopped an ...

NEW YORK — A cryptocurrency investor has been arrested and charged with kidnapping a man and keeping him locked up for weeks ...

A 37-year-old Kentucky man, known by some as the "crypto king of Kentucky," was charged with kidnapping and torturing an ...

John Woeltz, a 37-year-old from Kentucky, was arrested Friday and charged with assault, kidnapping, and unlawful imprisonment on Saturday. Attorneys said Woeltz forced the victim to send Bitcoin by ...

Two individuals were arrested in New York for the kidnapping and torture of an Italian tourist in a Bitcoin-related crime.