The New York assault is the latest addition in a growing list of violent attempts to steal crypto through physical coercion.

Crypto investor John Woeltz faces charges for kidnapping and torturing an Italian tourist in a Manhattan townhouse to steal ...

An American cryptocurrency investor has been charged with kidnapping and torturing a young man for weeks in an alleged plot to steal his Bitcoin password.John Woeltz (37) was arrested on Friday after ...

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

The Euro exec became a person of interest in the case after the arrest of Kentucky crypto king John Woeltz on Friday for allegedly holding wealthy trader Michael Vanlentino Teofrasto Carturan ...

A wealthy crypto investor is accused of torturing a man in a ritzy New York City townhouse by electrocuting him, ...

NEW YORK — A cryptocurrency investor has been arrested and charged with kidnapping a man and keeping him locked up for weeks in an upscale Manhattan apartment, where authorities say he was beaten, ...

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 ...