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The new suspect surrendered to detectives at the 13th Precinct stationhouse Tuesday morning and is being questioned with charges pending.
The second suspect in the SoHo crypto torture case has surrendered and now faces charges including kidnapping and assault.
An alleged accomplice in the NYC crypto kidnapping surrendered to authorities Tuesday morning in SoHo, police say.
The Kentucky-based cryptocurrency investor accused of kidnapping and torturing an Italian businessman in a sadistic attempt to extort his Bitcoin password was ordered held without bail Saturday by a Manhattan judge.
Many remember May 22, 2010 as Bitcoin Pizza Day, but Laszlo Hanyecz actually spent nearly 80,000 bitcoin that year — a sum worth over $8.7 billion today.