Overview

• John Woeltz and William Duplessie remain held without bail after grand jury indictments and face arraignment on June 11.
• Two off-duty NYPD detectives, including one on Mayor Adams’s security detail, were placed on modified duty as Internal Affairs probes their private security roles with the suspects.
• The victim, a 28-year-old Italian businessman, told prosecutors he endured 17 days of beatings, electric shocks and threats to force him to surrender his Bitcoin password.
• Police seized weapons, body armor, drugs and Polaroid images documenting the torture during a search of the Manhattan townhouse.
• French authorities have announced stepped-up security briefings and emergency support for crypto entrepreneurs and their families in response to similar kidnappings.