週五，沃爾茨（Woeltz

沃爾茨（Woeltz），也稱為“肯塔基州的加密王者國王”（King of Kentucky）。

A man known as the “crypto king of Kentucky” has been arrested in connection with the alleged kidnapping and torture of a 28-year-old Italian citizen in a luxury lower Manhattan townhouse.

一名被稱為“肯塔基州加密王王”的人因涉嫌綁架和酷刑在豪華的下曼哈頓聯排別墅中被捕。

Thomas Woeltz was apprehended on Friday after the victim managed to escape from the five-story home in NoLIta and flagged down a traffic agent who contacted police, reports the New York Times.

據《紐約時報》報導，在受害人設法從諾利塔的五層樓房屋中逃脫並標記了與警察聯繫的交通經紀人，托馬斯·沃爾茨（Thomas Woeltz）週五被捕。

The victim, Michael Valentino Teofrasto Carturan, was allegedly held captive for three weeks. During that time, he was pistol-whipped, slashed with a saw and threatened with a taser gun, according to reports.

受害人邁克爾·瓦倫蒂諾·特奧夫拉斯托·卡圖蘭（Michael Valentino Teofrasto Carturan）據稱被俘虜了三個星期。據報導，在那段時間裡，他被手槍擊中，用鋸子砍掉並用泰瑟槍威脅。

Prosecutors allege that while in the house Woeltz and his alleged accomplice, William Duplessie, who was arrested on Tuesday, tortured Carturan by pistol-whipping him, shocking him with a taser gun, forcing him to smoke crack cocaine and cutting his leg with a saw, according to CBS News. Carturan told police that he was even suspended over a ledge at the top of the five-story home, according to the New York Times.

檢察官聲稱，在沃爾茨（Woeltz）和他所謂的同夥威廉·杜普萊西（William Dupleseie）週二被捕時，手槍鞭打他，用泰瑟槍震驚了他，迫使他吸煙可卡因，並用鋸子割斷了他的腿。據《紐約時報》報導，卡圖蘭告訴警方，他甚至被暫停在五層樓房屋頂部的壁架上。

The ordeal unfolded after Carturan, a business partner of Woeltz, arrived at the townhouse on May 6.

沃爾茨（Woeltz）的商業夥伴卡圖蘭（Carturan）於5月6日到達聯排別墅之後，這場磨難發生了。

Upon his arrival, Woeltz and his accomplice confiscated Carturan’s passport and electronic devices. They allegedly threatened to harm the victim’s family members if he did not provide the password to his Bitcoin wallet, which is said to contain millions of dollars in crypto.

到達後，沃爾茨和他的同夥沒收了卡圖蘭的護照和電子設備。據稱，如果受害人不提供其比特幣錢包的密碼，據說他威脅要傷害受害人的家人，據說該錢包包含數百萬美元的加密貨幣。

Lawyers for Woeltz did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Lawyers for Duplessie declined to comment when contacted by Fortune.

沃爾茨的律師沒有立即回應置評請求。 Duplessie的律師在Fortune聯繫時拒絕置評。

Woeltz grew up in Paducah, Kentucky, about 140 miles outside of Nashville, according to an interview he gave to a local newspaper in 2020. After graduating from the University of Kentucky, Woeltz moved west to invest in tech startups.

根據他在2020年對當地報紙的一次採訪，沃爾茨在肯塔基州的帕德卡（Paducah）長大，在納什維爾（Nashville）外約140英里。

He entered the crypto space around 2018, when he served part of the winning team at ETHGlobal San Francisco hackathon, an annual event put on by an Ethereum-focused organization. He then went on to become the managing director of Silicon River Capital and blockchain-based investment fund, according to his interview in the local paper.

他在2018年左右進入加密貨幣空間，當時他在Ethglobal San Francisco Hackathon贏得了一部分，這是由以太坊以以太坊為中心的組織舉行的年度活動。然後，根據當地報紙的採訪，他繼續成為矽河資本和基於區塊鏈的投資基金的董事總經理。

More recently, Woeltz became involved with the Bitcoin mining industry in Kentucky. He was chosen by the state office of technology to join a working group focused on using blockchain technology for “critical infrastructure, public utilities, telecommunications, emergency services,” according to the group’s annual report.

最近，沃爾茨（Woeltz）參與了肯塔基州的比特幣採礦業。根據該集團的年度報告，該州的技術人員被選為加入一個工作組，該工作組致力於使用區塊鏈技術進行“關鍵基礎設施，公用事業，電信，緊急服務”。

Woeltz has been charged with kidnapping, assault, unlawful imprisonment and criminal possession of a firearm, according to court documents. He was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court on Saturday, where his bail was set at $250,000 bail, according to the New York Post.

根據法庭文件，沃爾茨（Woeltz）被指控綁架，毆打，非法監禁和刑事槍支罪。據《紐約郵報》報導，他週六在曼哈頓刑事法院被提審，據《紐約郵報》報導，他的保釋金定為25萬美元。

The New York City saga comes as just the latest in an epidemic of violent kidnappings of wealth crypto owners, a phenomenon that has led some to purchase “wrench attack” insurance—a policy whose names come from a meme that shows bandits scheming to defeat high tech safeguards by hitting the victim with a wrench.

紐約市傳奇只是綁架財富加密所有者的暴力綁架流行病的最新消息，這一現象導致一些人購買了“扳手攻擊”保險，該保單來自模因，其名字來自一個模因，該模因表明強盜策劃通過用扳手擊打受害者來擊敗受害者。