The service of the two officers has been "modified," the NYPD confirmed, as an internal review into their potential connection to the crypto millionaire's torturers is underway.

The pair of hard-partying crypto bros accused of sadistically torturing an Italian millionaire lured him to New York City with the promise of returning Bitcoin they had allegedly stolen from him

John Woeltz, 37, and William Duplessie, 33 -- face kidnapping, assault and unlawful imprisonment charges in the case.

William Duplessie, 33, stood before a judge in Manhattan Criminal Court wearing a beige prison smock and his arms cuffed behind his back as he awaited a grand jury indictment.

The recent case of an Italian tourist who was kidnapped in New York City and tortured by people allegedly after his cryptocurrency is drawing attention to a rash of crimes dubbed "wrench attacks," which combine cybertheft with old-fashioned thuggery.

NYPD detectives reassigned after a Bitcoin millionaire's kidnapping in SoHo; one is part of Mayor Adams' security detail. The mayor distinguishes between their private actions and professional duties.

The off-duty detective who drove torture victim Michael Valentino Teofrasto Carturan from the airport to the crypto brothers’ Soho pad had served on Mayor Adams’ security detail.

A second man has been indicted in New York after being charged with kidnapping a man for three weeks in Manhattan's upscale SoHo neighborhood, shocking him with electric wires, and dangling him over a staircase to try to get him to give up his bitcoin password,

NYPD officers sidelined amid accusations of aiding suspects in a shocking crypto trader assault, prompting major public scrutiny.