A cryptocurrency investor has been arrested and charged in New York Metropolis after he allegedly tortured a person for weeks — with reviews claiming he was attempting to acquire passwords associated to cryptocurrency.

John Woeltz — a 37-year-old Kentucky man — was arrested Friday after a 28-year-old man allegedly escaped a home within the metropolis’s SoHo neighborhood. NYPD tells TMZ he instructed a police officer he’d been held captive and tortured for weeks.

In response to reviews … Woeltz allegedly lured the person — who’s believed to have had prior enterprise dealings with Woeltz — to a home on Might 6.

As soon as there, the prosecutors declare Woeltz took his passport, tied him up with electrical cords, and tortured him over the 2 weeks in an effort to get his Bitcoin password.

Among the many alleged torture strategies … the alleged sufferer was compelled to take cocaine, hit with a pistol, subjected to tasering whereas his ft have been underwater, threatened with an electrical chainsaw and hung off a ledge inside the house. The alleged sufferer was taken to Bellevue Hospital.

Woeltz was arrested whereas carrying a bathrobe — he was seen later leaving the police precinct in a white T-shirt. A 24-year-old lady was additionally reportedly arrested in connection to the alleged crimes, although cops couldn’t verify it.

In response to NYPD, Woeltz was charged with first-degree kidnapping, first-degree illegal imprisonment, second-degree assault, and prison possession of a weapon.