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John Soeltz made headings on Friday after his arrest in New York City because of the alleged kidnapping and hurting someone to access his Bitcoin password. Before that, 37-year-old Woeltz used to make a different reputation as a rising star in the Crypto world.
Woeltz, also known as “Crypto King of Kentucky,” arrested Friday after a man escaped from his luxury traffic called by Police, according to New York Times. The victim, a 28-year-old Italy named Michael Valentino Teofastasta Carturan, said held in 17-bedroom townhouses for three weeks.
The prosecutors asked that while Woeltz was at home and his said assistant, William Duplessie, who taxkey On Tuesday, tortured carcasses by pistol-whipping him, surprised him with a taser gun, pressed him to smoke cocaine and cutting his leg with a saw, according to CBS NEwS. Carturan told police he had suspended a passage at the end of the five-story house, according to New York Times.
Ordination began after Carturan, a Wooltz’s business partner, arrived at the townhouse on May 6. His companion confiscated his trenches purse holding millions of dollars Crypto.
Lawyers for Woeltz did not immediately answer a request for commentary. Lawyers for Duplessie refused to comment when contacted in Fate.
Woeltz grew up in Paducah, Kentucky, about 140 miles outside Nashville, according to a interview He gave a local newspaper by 2020. After graduating from the University of Kentucky, Wooltz moved west to invest in tech startups.
He entered into Crypto space in 2018, when he served as part of the winner team of Ethglobal San Francisco Hackathon, an etherum-targeted organization. He continued to be the director of the Director of the Silicon River Capital and Blockchain-Basic Investment Fund, according to his local paper interview.
Many many, Woeltz included in the Kentucky’s Bitcoin mining industry. He was selected at the state of the state of technology to participate in a working group focusing on the use of blockcha technology for “critical services, telecommunications, emergency years report.
Woeltz was charged with kidnapping, attacking, unlawful imprisonment and criminal possession of weapons, according to court documents.
Saga in New York City comes as the most recent of an epidemic of violent kidnapping of wealthowners, an event leading some To buy “wrench attack” insurance-On policy whose names come from a meme that shows the bandits that describe to defeat high tech safes by hitting the victim in a wrench.
This story originally shown Fortune.com
