New York, May 25, 2025 (AFP) - Italian man kidnapped in bizarre NY crypto plot: court docs

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2025-05-25

A cryptocurrency investor has been charged with kidnapping an Italian man for weeks, threatening and torturing him with a gun and a chainsaw in a grisly bid to extort his Bitcoin password, court documents and US media said. In a plot like a bad Hollywood thriller, New York police told AFP on Sunday that they arrested 37-year-old John Woeltz, a Kentucky man, on Friday in the posh Manhattan apartment he was renting. Woeltz was charged Saturday wit......

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