The Latest Breaking News from John Woeltz

San Francisco robber posing as delivery driver steals $11M in cryptocurrency

The suspect tied up their victim with duct tape, according to a report

The Independent UK · Nov 23, 2025

The Chinese 'Bitcoin queen', the £5.5bn stash and the five year police chase. Inside London’s crypto wars

With crypto crime soaring, perpetrators bagging billions and even resorting to kidnapping, can law enforcement catch up with the culprits?

Evening Standard · Nov 12, 2025

Two men plead not guilty in New York crypto kidnapping and torture case

Two crypto investors have pleaded not guilty to charges they kidnapped and tortured an Italian man for his Bitcoin in a Manhattan townhouse

The Independent UK · Jun 11, 2025

‘Crypto king of Kentucky’ arrested for allegedly torturing man with saw and electricity in bid to steal his Bitcoin

John Woeltz, a crypto investor, allegedly tortured a man in his NYC home for three weeks.

Fortune · May 27, 2025

Moment barefoot crypto kidnap victim escapes house of horrors and seeks help from cop after 3 weeks of alleged torture

John Woeltz and William Duplessie face kidnapping charges after the 28-year-old victim escaped from the New York City townhouse where he was allegedly being held captive and tortured

The Independent UK · May 27, 2025

A second crypto investor is charged with kidnapping and torturing a man in a posh NYC apartment

A second cryptocurrency investor has surrendered to police in the alleged kidnapping and torture of a man inside an upscale Manhattan apartment

The Independent UK · May 27, 2025

A crypto investor is charged with kidnapping and torturing a man in an NYC apartment for weeks

Officials say a cryptocurrency investor has been arrested and charged with kidnapping, assaulting and holding a man against his will for several weeks in an upscale Manhattan town house

The Independent UK · May 25, 2025

Crypto investor in New York charged in kidnapping and torture plot

John Woeltz, 37, being held without bail after allegedly beating, shocking and dangling man from five-story home

The Guardian - US · May 24, 2025

Italian businessman tortured for weeks with chainsaw and Taser in luxury New York apartment by crypto investor, police say

John Woeltz is accused of keeping an Italian citizen captive for two weeks in his lush Manhattan apartment

The Independent UK · May 24, 2025

NYC Crypto Investor Allegedly Tortured Former Business Partner and Threatened to Cut Off His Limbs With a Chainsaw

A cryptocurrency entrepreneur has been arrested in connection with the kidnapping and torture of his former business partner, allegedly held captive for weeks.

Latin Times · May 24, 2025