周五，沃尔茨（Woeltz

沃尔茨（Woeltz），也称为“肯塔基州的加密王者国王”（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.

一名被称为“肯塔基州加密王王”的人因涉嫌绑架和酷刑在豪华的下曼哈顿联排别墅中被捕。

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.

据《纽约时报》报道，在受害人设法从诺利塔的五层楼房屋中逃脱并标记了与警察联系的交通经纪人，托马斯·沃尔茨（Thomas Woeltz）周五被捕。

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.

受害人迈克尔·瓦伦蒂诺·特奥夫拉斯托·卡图兰（Michael Valentino Teofrasto Carturan）据称被俘虏了三个星期。据报道，在那段时间里，他被手枪击中，用锯子砍掉并用泰瑟枪威胁。

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.

检察官声称，在沃尔茨（Woeltz）和他所谓的同伙威廉·杜普莱西（William Dupleseie）周二被捕时，他用手枪鞭打他，用泰瑟枪震惊了他，迫使他吸烟可卡因，并用锯子割断了他的腿。据《纽约时报》报道，卡图兰告诉警方，他甚至被暂停在五层楼房屋顶部的壁架上。

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

沃尔茨（Woeltz）的商业伙伴卡图兰（Carturan）于5月6日到达联排别墅之后，这场磨难发生了。

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.

到达后，沃尔茨和他的同伙没收了卡图兰的护照和电子设备。据称，如果受害人不提供其比特币钱包的密码，据说他威胁要伤害受害人的家人，据说该钱包包含数百万美元的加密货币。

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

沃尔茨的律师没有立即回应置评请求。 Duplessie的律师在Fortune联系时拒绝置评。

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.

根据他在2020年对当地报纸的一次采访，沃尔茨在肯塔基州的帕德卡（Paducah）长大，在纳什维尔（Nashville）外约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年左右进入加密货币空间，当时他在Ethglobal San Francisco Hackathon赢得了一部分，这是由以太坊以以太坊为中心的组织举行的年度活动。然后，根据当地报纸的采访，他继续成为硅河资本和基于区块链的投资基金的董事总经理。

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，沃尔茨（Woeltz）参与了肯塔基州的比特币采矿业。根据该集团的年度报告，该州的技术人员被选为加入一个工作组，该工作组致力于使用区块链技术进行“关键基础设施，公用事业，电信，紧急服务”。

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.

根据法庭文件，沃尔茨（Woeltz）被指控绑架，殴打，非法监禁和刑事枪支罪。据《纽约邮报》报道，他周六在曼哈顿刑事法院被提审，据《纽约邮报》报道，他的保释金定为25万美元。

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.

纽约市传奇只是绑架财富加密所有者的暴力绑架流行病的最新消息，这一现象导致一些人购买了“扳手攻击”保险，该保单来自模因，其名字来自一个模因，该模因表明强盗策划通过用扳手击打受害者来击败受害者。