Odaily Planet Daily News: 37-year-old American cryptocurrency investor John Woeltz and a 24-year-old suspected female accomplice have been accused of illegally detaining and torturing a 28-year-old Italian businessman in a luxury apartment in Manhattan, New York, for over two weeks, in an attempt to obtain his cryptocurrency account password. The victim arrived in New York on May 6 to meet with John Woeltz, with whom he had previously done business, and was subsequently stripped of his passport and subjected to electric shocks, drug coercion, chainsaw threats, and other forms of abuse. It is reported that the police discovered multiple Polaroid photographs of the victim being bound and tortured at the scene, as well as firearms, chainsaws, and other tools. The victim ultimately escaped and reported to the police on May 23. John Woeltz has been charged with first-degree kidnapping, illegal imprisonment, assault, and illegal possession of weapons, among other charges. (The Block)