A second suspect within the alleged kidnapping and torture of an Italian man in a luxurious New York Metropolis condominium surrendered on Tuesday, police stated.
Like co-defendant John Woeltz, the second suspect is predicted to face costs of kidnapping, assault and illegal imprisonment, in response to police. The person — William Duplessie — turned himself in on the NYPD’s thirteenth Precinct.
Duplessie didn’t reply to reporters’ shouted questions whereas being escorted out of the precinct Tuesday afternoon. An lawyer for the suspect had no remark when contacted by ABC Information.
William Duplessie is escorted out of the New York Police thirteenth Precinct after turning himself in on costs of kidnapping and false imprisonment, Could 27, 2025, in New York.
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Woeltz, a crypto entrepreneur, was arrested Friday after a vacationer from Italy advised police he was tortured within the suspect’s eight-bedroom SoHo townhouse for greater than two weeks, in response to police.
The alleged 28-year-old sufferer advised police he arrived in New York from Italy on Could 6 and went to Woeltz’s dwelling.
Assistant District Lawyer Michael Mattson stated Woeltz and Duplessie allegedly lured the alleged sufferer to New York from Italy by threatening to have the alleged sufferer’s household killed.
As soon as the alleged sufferer arrived, he was stripped of his electronics and passport. He was then sure by the wrists and subjected to beatings, electrical shock and a success to the pinnacle from a gun.
Woeltz allegedly carried the alleged sufferer to the highest flight of stairs and hung him over the ledge and threatened to kill him he didn’t present his Bitcoin password.
Police tape is proven on the scene on Could 23, 2025, in New York, the place a cryptocurrency entrepreneur allegedly tortured a person for weeks.
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The sufferer advised authorities Woeltz and Duplessie used a noticed to chop his leg, urinated on him and compelled him to smoke crack cocaine by holding him down or forcing a pipe into his mouth, prosecutors stated.
The alleged sufferer was lastly in a position to escape after believing he was going to be shot by telling his captors he would offer the defendant together with his Bitcoin password contained on his laptop computer. When Woeltz left the sufferer to retrieve the laptop computer, the alleged sufferer was in a position to escape down the steps.
Contained in the townhouse, prosecutors stated detectives recovered a noticed, crack cocaine, rooster wire, t-shirts with footage of the alleged sufferer with the crack cocaine pipe in his mouth, physique armor, evening imaginative and prescient goggles, ballistic helmets, polaroid footage of the alleged sufferer with a firearm pointed to his head, along with firearm ammunition.
Legislation enforcement additionally noticed blood in numerous areas within the condominium the place the sufferer indicated he was being tortured.
A gun was recovered within the dwelling, police stated.
Woeltz didn’t make any feedback to reporters as he was escorted out of his condominium by police in handcuffs final week. He was held with out bail on costs of kidnapping, assault and illegal imprisonment throughout his preliminary look in court docket Saturday. He didn’t enter a plea.
Prosecutors satisfied the decide to carry Woeltz with out bail by declaring that he’s from Kentucky and has the means to flee, together with a personal jet and helicopter.
Woeltz is subsequent due in court docket Wednesday. His lawyer had no touch upon the case following Woeltz’s arrest.
