NYC Crypto Torture Suspects
Granted $1 Million Bail …
No Crypto Accepted — Solely Chilly, Arduous 💵
Revealed
The 2 NYC “crypto bros” accused of kidnapping and torturing an Italian millionaire to extract his Bitcoin password have been granted $1 million bail every.
A Manhattan Supreme Courtroom Justice handed down the choice on Wednesday for John Woeltz and William Duplessie, ordering neither can use cryptocurrency to publish bail. If they’ve the funds, the pair will probably be launched into dwelling confinement with digital monitoring and passport give up pending trial.
Celeb bail bondsman Ira Judelson will put collectively the bail packages for each males and match them with ankle displays.
Each males beforehand pleaded not responsible to fees of kidnapping, assault, illegal imprisonment, and felony possession of a weapon. The suspects allegedly lured Italian entrepreneur Michael Valentino Teofrasto Carturan to their rented Manhattan townhouse and saved him trapped there for over 17 days, making an attempt to power him to cough up his Bitcoin password.
Prosecutors say the suspects drugged the sufferer, pistol-whipped him, and used electrical wires to shock him. The lads allegedly carried him to the highest of a staircase and threatened to throw him over a ledge if he didn’t hand over his Bitcoin password. Finally, Carturan caved — pointing them to a laptop computer the place the password was saved.
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On the time, TMZ obtained unique video of Carturan making a break for it, sprinting after a site visitors cop — simply earlier than Woeltz and Duplessie have been arrested. Carturan was hospitalized and handled for accidents that prosecutors say corroborate his account.
A police search of the SoHo townhouse uncovered cocaine, a noticed, hen wire, physique armor, night time imaginative and prescient goggles, ammunition, and Polaroids exhibiting a gun pointed on the sufferer’s head.
We obtained movies and pictures revealing intercourse events and X-rated pranks — not precisely kidnapping and torture — have been taking place inside the posh townhouse.
