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NEW YORK (PIX11) – Two NYPD officers person been placed connected administrative permission owed to their alleged connections to the men accused of kidnapping and torturing an Italian tourist successful a cryptocurrency scheme, sources said.
Sources told NewsNation affiliate PIX11 News connected Thursday that the 2 officers were moonlighting arsenic information for 1 oregon some of the suspects.
William Duplessie, 33, and John Woeltz, 37, allegedly kidnapped and tortured a 28-year-old cryptocurrency millionaire who escaped from an flat adjacent Prince and Mulberry streets successful SoHo.
One serviceman allegedly acted arsenic the victim's operator erstwhile helium landed from an country airport. He past took the unfortunate to the SoHo apartment, wherever helium was tortured for weeks, sources said.
Another serviceman was besides connected the payroll and was being paid for services, according to sources.
Officials said the suspects wanted the password to the tourist’s Bitcoin account. Duplessie and Woeltz allegedly bound and bushed the unfortunate respective times, including hitting him successful the caput with a weapon and utilizing electrical wires to daze him for 3 weeks successful the apartment.
They besides utilized a saw to chopped the man’s leg, urinated connected him, and forced him to fume ace cocaine by holding him down oregon forcing a tube into his mouth, according to tribunal documents.
The tourer told the defendants helium would springiness them entree to the relationship and ran retired of the flat erstwhile Woeltz went to get the victim’s laptop, officials said.
One serviceman is said to beryllium assigned to the NYPD's Elite Executive Protection Unit, which protects the mayor. Their names person not been released.
The concern is nether reappraisal by interior affairs, sources said.
Every metropolis worker is expected to travel the law, including our officers, some connected and disconnected duty. We are disturbed by these allegations, and arsenic soon arsenic it came to our attention, the officers were placed connected modified duty. The probe is ongoing.
New York City HallA spokesperson said the politician was unaware of what the idiosyncratic connected his squad was doing connected his idiosyncratic time.
This communicative comprises reporting from PIX11 News newsman Mira Wassef.
