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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Chelsia Rose Marcius |Maia Coleman
The New York Police Department is investigating a detective who provided security at a luxurious Manhattan townhouse where two cryptocurrency investors are accused of torturing a man for three weeks, according to two city officials with knowledge of the matter.
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1 week ago | 
seattletimes.com | Chelsia Rose Marcius |Maia Coleman
NEW YORK — A 37-year-old cryptocurrency investor was charged Saturday with kidnapping a man and beating, shocking and torturing him for weeks in a luxury townhouse in downtown Manhattan, all in a scheme to get the man’s bitcoin password, authorities said. The crypto investor, John Woeltz, was taken into custody Friday after the man managed to escape the townhouse and notify the police.
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1 week ago | 
einvestidor.estadao.com.br | Maia Coleman |Chelsia Rose Marcius
Um investidor de criptomoedas de 37 anos foi acusado neste sábado (24) de sequestrar um homem, espancá-lo, eletrocutá-lo e torturá-lo por semanas dentro de uma casa de alto padrão no centro de Manhattan, em Nova York. Segundo autoridades, todo o crime fez parte de um plano para obter a senha do bitcoin da vítima. CONTINUA APÓS A PUBLICIDADE John Woeltz foi preso na sexta-feira após a vítima conseguir escapar da residência e avisar a polícia.
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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Maia Coleman
A worker at a sewage treatment facility died on Saturday after an explosion onboard a boat in the Hudson River near Upper Manhattan, the Fire Department said. The worker was an employee at the North River Wastewater Resource Recovery Facility, a sewage treatment plant just off the Henry Hudson Parkway near 138th Street.
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Maia Coleman |Chelsia Rose Marcius
3 hours agoA cryptocurrency investor has been charged after he allegedly kidnapped an Italian former business partner and tortured him for two weeks -- using a taser, chainsaw and other twisted methods -- inside a plush New York City townhouse as part of a sadistic plot to steal passwords, according to police …
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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Maia Coleman |Chelsia Rose Marcius
A 37-year-old cryptocurrency investor was arrested and charged on Friday evening with kidnapping a man and torturing him for weeks inside a luxury townhouse in downtown Manhattan, the police said. The crypto investor, John Woeltz, was taken into custody on Friday after the man managed to escape the townhouse and notify the police. Mr. Woeltz was charged on Friday evening with assault, kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment and criminal possession of a gun.
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2 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Maia Coleman
As the strike entered its second day, the agency's chief executive, Kris Kolluri, said that he planned to meet with union representatives at 1 p.m., a day earlier than planned. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen went on strike on Friday after contract negotiations with New Jersey Transit broke down. Credit...
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3 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Michael Wilson |Maia Coleman
A boy in the Bronx fired three shots into a crowd, most likely aiming at another boy who had punched him, the police said. One bullet struck Evette Jeffrey, 16, in the head, killing her. The fight that ended the life of Evette Jeffrey began like so many others. "It was a fistfight," said Joseph Kenny, the Police Department's chief of detectives.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Maia Coleman
A 46-year-old man was charged Wednesday with fatally stabbing a rider on a New York City subway train last week after the two got into an argument during the morning rush. The man,identified by the police asLuis Jose-Duarte, was charged with manslaughter for his role in the death of the rider, John Sheldon, 38, according to the police. Mr. Jose-Duarte was arraigned Wednesday evening and pleaded not guilty.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Maia Coleman
The killing occurred after the man got into a fight with his assailant on a downtown No. 5 train during the morning rush hour, officials said. A 38-year-old man was fatally stabbed early Friday by a second man with whom he had been fighting on a downtown No. 5 train as it pulled into a Manhattan station during rush hour, officials said.
