Overview

• John Woeltz and William Duplessie entered not guilty pleas on June 11 and were ordered held without bail until their next court appearance on July 15.
• Federal agents from the ATF, NYPD and Kentucky State Police executed warrants on June 10 at the duo’s Kentucky estate as part of an ongoing violent crime investigation.
• A Manhattan grand jury unsealed indictments charging the men with kidnapping, assault, coercion, attempted grand larceny and criminal weapons possession related to the New York abduction.
• Prosecutors allege the defendants confined Michael Valentino Teofrasto Carturan for 17 days in a SoHo townhouse and subjected him to electric shocks, beatings and other abuse to force him to surrender his bitcoin password.
• Investigators revealed that Woeltz and Duplessie may have held two other people against their will and have placed two detectives who worked security at the townhouse on modified leave.