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

The recent case of an Italian tourist who was kidnapped in New York City and tortured by people allegedly after his cryptocurrency is drawing attention to a rash of crimes dubbed "wrench attacks," which combine cybertheft with old-fashioned thuggery.

One of the suspects in the SoHo crypto torture case has been indicted by a grand jury on Friday as we learn more details about two NYPD detectives now under investigation in connection to the case. William Duplessie appeared in court briefly Friday after he was arraigned earlier this week after turning himself in on charges of kidnapping and false

The off-duty detective who drove torture victim Michael Valentino Teofrasto Carturan from the airport to the crypto brothers’ Soho pad had served on Mayor Adams’ security detail.

William Duplessie, 33, stood before a judge in Manhattan Criminal Court wearing a beige prison smock and his arms cuffed behind his back as he awaited a grand jury indictment.

A second man has been indicted in New York after being charged with kidnapping a man for three weeks in Manhattan's upscale SoHo neighborhood, shocking him with electric wires, and dangling him over a staircase to try to get him to give up his bitcoin password,

The crypto trader wanted for questioning in the horrific torture of an Italian bitcoin dealer inside a posh SoHo townhouse turned himself in to cops Tuesday — after living it up in the Hamptons over the holiday weekend,