Surveillance cameras captured the moment a cryptocurrency businessman escaped after more than two weeks of being tortured inside a luxury Manhattan townhouse.
Michael Valentino Teofrasto Carturan, 28, hobbled down a busy SoHo street on Friday after having ran out of a lavish six-story apartment where he was allegedly chained up, electrocuted and taunted with a chainsaw for 17 days.
The Italian national, bloodied and shoeless, flagged down a NYPD traffic officer at the intersection of Spring and Mulberry Streets and pleaded for help, NBC 4 reports.
The disheveled tourist told the officer he had seized the opportunity to escape after being told it would be his 'death day'. Police said he was covered in bruises, cuts and had ligature marks on his wrists from where he was allegedly bound.
Officers converged on the property and arrested John Woeltz, the so-called 'Crypto King of Kentucky', on charges of assault, kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment, and criminal possession of a firearm.
