The second suspect in NYC’s infamous crypto torture caper is now cooling his heels behind bars after being hit with formal costs by the Manhattan District Lawyer’s Workplace.

Prosecutors filed a prison court docket grievance Tuesday in Manhattan Legal Courtroom, charging Bitcoin entrepreneur William Duplessie with a number of felonies — kidnapping, assault, illegal imprisonment and prison possession of a weapon.

At his arraignment Tuesday night, Duplessie was ordered held with out bail after prosecutors requested the choose to remand him because of the severity of the crimes.

In keeping with the prison grievance, Duplessie and his alleged cohort, John Woeltz, lured their enterprise companion, Michael Valentino Teofrasto Carturan, to their fancy Soho townhouse earlier this month.

Police say the three males have been concerned in a Bitcoin enterprise that went awry after Duplessie and Woeltz seized Carturan’s digital gadgets and passport contained in the townhouse on Could 6.

For the subsequent three weeks, Duplessie and Woeltz allegedly saved Carturan a prisoner whereas demanding his password to a Bitcoin pockets value thousands and thousands.

However, Carturan refused to cough it up even after police say his two abductors tortured him through the use of electrical wires to shock him and pointed a gun at his head. Duplessie and Woeltz additionally allegedly hung Carturan over a ledge on the prime of a staircase, threatening to kill him if he did not flip over the password.

In keeping with the grievance, Duplessie and Woeltz went as far as to bind and tie Carturan’s wrists, insisting they’d homicide his household in the event that they did not get what they wished.

Police say Carturan managed to flee, dashing out of the townhouse and flagging down an NYPD visitors enforcement agent for assist.