The Investor for Kriptoturcy was arrested and accused of kidnapping man and keeping him by locking weeks in ages Manhattan The apartment, in which authorities say they were beaten, shocked and brought to believe that his family is in danger of not giving up his Bitcoin passwords.
John Woeltz, 37, was arrested on Friday evening after the victim escaped from a two-bedroom city house and marked in the traffic director on the street for help, according to prosecutors.
Woeltz was on Saturday, on Saturday for kidnapping, attack, illegal prison and criminal possession of firearms, court records. It is ordered to be held without bail, a spokesman for the murder of the district tourist attorney in Manhattan confirmed Saturday.
His lawyer, Wayne Gosnell, said in the e-mail on Saturday that he had no comments.
28-year-old victim arrived in New York City from Italy At the beginning of May, the law enforcement officer told the associate. The officer was not authorized to speak publicly about the current investigation and did so provided by anonymity.
It is not clear how or if the two of them, but in the Office of the District Lawyer, he told the E-Posender that Machael Mattson told Judge on Saturday that the victim was not released, 18. May.
Mattson said others were involved in the scheme to empty the Bitcoin’s wallet. This includes a person called in court records as “German male”.
The victim said he had stuck and tortured for weeks in the apartment. His kidnappers, according to prosecutors, were used by the electric wire to hit him in the head at one point, they took him to the top of the stepped through the exit and threatening him if he killed him if he didn’t share his bitcoin bar.
Believing that he would soon be shot, the victim could escape on Friday after he told Woeltz that he would give up his password, which was stored on his laptop in another room. When the suspect turned his back, Mattson said, the victim ran out of the apartment.
The victim was taken to the hospital and treated for injuries that Mattson said they were in line with his descriptions related to binding and attack.
The search of the city house appeared the prosecution, said Mattson, including cocaine, chicken wire, body armor and night visions, ammunition and polaroid photos with a gun pointed out.
Woeltz was ordered on Saturday to hand over her passport. The prosecutors said he had escapes, including a private jet and a helicopter. Back is back in the Menhattan Criminal Court next week.
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Yamt reported from Las Vegas. Joined print writer Susan Haigh in Hartford, ConnecticutBecky Bohrer in Juneau, Alaska, contributed to this report.