Second Suspect Surrenders in New York Crypto Kidnapping Case Involving ‘Crypto King of Kentucky’

A second suspect in a shocking cryptocurrency-related kidnapping case has surrendered to New York authorities. William Duplessie turns himself in to the NYPD’s Major Case Squad Detectives unit in Manhattan, accompanied by his legal counsel. Duplessie is allegedly a business partner of John Woeltz, the self-proclaimed “crypto king of Kentucky,” who is accused of kidnapping and torturing an Italian man in an Upper East Side townhouse.

According to investigators, Duplessie and Woeltz conspire to detain the Italian man—identified by local media as a former business associate. . .