Crypto Investor John Woeltz Charged with Kidnapping, Torturing Italian Tourist
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- Cryptocurrency investor John Woeltz has been charged after police claim he kidnapped and tortured an Italian tourist for more than two weeks inside an upscale New York City apartment
- The 37-year-old is charged with two counts of second-degree assault and one charge each of kidnapping, imprisonment and criminal possession of a firearm
- Woeltz is being held without bail
A cryptocurrency investor has been charged after police claim he kidnapped and tortured an Italian tourist for more than two weeks in New York City.
John Woeltz, 37, was arrested on Friday, May 23, per a statement from the New York Police Department (NYPD) obtained by PEOPLE, after the tourist, 28, escaped from an upscale N.Y.C. apartment that morning and…
