Last month, cryptocurrency investor John Woeltz was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping and torturing Italian crypto millionaire Michael Valentino Teofrasto Carturan with electrocution and tasing ...

In a Wednesday hearing in the New York Supreme Criminal Court, John Woeltz and William Duplessie pleaded not guilty to kidnapping and false imprisonment of Michael Valentino Teofrasto Carturan ...

At the first meeting, outside Manhattan, the investors persuaded the man, Michael Valentino Teofrasto Carturan, to give them some of his devices and the passkey, prosecutors said.

Woeltz, 37, and Duplessie, 33, are accused of luring 28-year-old Michael Valentino Teofrasto Carturan from Italy to Manhattan, then violently keeping him under their control for 17 days before he ...

MANHATTAN (CN) — Refuting a headline-grabbing story, defense attorneys on Wednesday claimed an Italian tourist purportedly held captive in a SoHo townhouse was free to come and go — and “having the ...

Woeltz, 37, and Duplessie, 33, are accused of luring 28-year-old Michael Valentino Teofrasto Carturan from Italy to Manhattan, then violently keeping him under their control for 17 days before he ...

Woeltz, 37, and Duplessie, 33, are accused of luring 28-year-old Michael Valentino Teofrasto Carturan from Italy to Manhattan, then violently keeping him under their control for 17 days before he ...

Michael Valentino Teofrasto Carturan was renting a luxury New York townhouse for $40,000 a month, enjoying the fruits of his highly lucrative investments in cryptocurrency. But in May, his 17-room ...

Michael Valentino Teofrasto Carturan, with face blurred, in security footage taken after he escpaed the apartment where he was allegedly held captive for 17 days, with the police officer whom he ...

Italian national Michael Valentino Teofrasto Carturan, 28, was allegedly held from May 6 to 23 in a luxury apartment on Prince Street for by John Woeltz and William Duplessie, who stand charged ...