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Crypto Investor Charged With Kidnapping and Torturing Man for Weeks
The investor, 37-year-old John Woeltz, was arrested Friday after the man escaped the downtown Manhattan townhouse where the police say he had been held and assaulted.
A 37-year-old cryptocurrency investor was arrested and charged on Friday evening with kidnapping a man and torturing him for weeks inside a luxury townhouse in downtown Manhattan, the police said.
The crypto investor, John Woeltz, was taken into custody on Friday after the man managed to escape the townhouse and notify the police. Mr. Woeltz was charged on Friday evening with assault, kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment and criminal possession of a gun.
Another person, Beatrice Folchi, was also arrested on Friday and charged with kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment, though her connection to Mr. Woeltz was not immediately clear.
