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CASE 243  |  38 y/o man  |  July 8, 2025  |  USA
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DATABASE RECORD
  id                  243
  date                July 8, 2025
  original_date       July 8, 2025
  year                2025
  month               7
  quarter             2025-Q3
  victim              38 y/o man
  location            Queens, New York, United States
  country             USA
  scenario            Kidnapping
  description         Victim kidnapped by 6 men and held for 10 days until he transferred $6,000 in fiat & cryptocurrency
  kidnappings         1
  violence_torture    1
  drugs_alcohol       0
  weapons             0
  theft               1
  life_taken          0
  money_wanted        $6000
  coin_type           wire and crypto
  reports             Daily News
  notes               6 men kidnapped a man for 10 days, getting $6000 in crypto and wire transfer
  has_processed_date  1
  created_at          2025-11-13 05:44:45

AI SUMMARY  [revised on review, verified against the sources in this file. Live DB still holds the shorter bulk-import summary — apply this to it.]
  **Victims:** A 38-year-old man in Queens, New York.
  
  **Attackers:** Six men; no arrests are recorded and their motive was unclear.
  
  **Attack Method:** On 8 July 2025, after dinner with a friend on Long Island, he was dropped at his car in Flushing (31st Rd. and Union St.); once the friend left, six men set upon him, tased him in the chest and drove him to an unknown location.
  
  **Violence Used:** He was tased in the chest and handcuffed while the suspects tried to extract money from him.
  
  **Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** He handed over about 900,000 yen (more than $6,000), taken both by wire from a bank account and from a cryptocurrency account.
  
  **Status:** He was held for about ten days, then dropped back at his car; he drove to NewYork-Presbyterian Queens, called 911 just before 5 a.m., and told the NYPD what happened, but decided he did not need medical treatment.

LINKED SOURCES
  [url]  https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/07/18/man-kidnapped-queens-held-cash-crypto-tells-nypd/

NOTES ON THIS FILE
  * matched to sheet row 244: exact match on victim + year, unique on both sides

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Man kidnapped in Queens, held 10 days for cash and crypto, he tells NYPD

A 38-year-old man was kidnapped by six men who held him for 10 days and robbed him of more than $6,000, police said Friday.

The victim just before 5 a.m. on Friday called 911 after driving to NewYork-Presbyterian Queens.

He told responding officers, followed by detectives that on July 8 he had dinner with a friend on Long Island, with the friend driving him back to his car, parked in Flushing at 31st Rd. and Union St.

When the friend left, the victim said, he was set upon by six men, who tased him in the chest, then drove him in their car to an unknown location, according to police.

He was handcuffed at some point, police said, as the suspects tried to extract money from him. In the end, he told police he gave them about 900,000 yen, equivalent to more than $6,000, both wired from a bank account and from a cryptocurrency account.

It was not clear why the suspects targeted the victim or how wealthy they believed he was.

Police said that on Friday morning the suspects dropped the victim off back at his car, after which he drove to the hospital, though he decided once there that he did not require medical treatment.


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Man kidnapped in Queens, held 10 days for cash and crypto, he tells NYPD



 
 




















































 
 
 




























 



 

 


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By Rocco Parascandola | rparascandola@nydailynews.com | New York Daily News

A 38-year-old man was kidnapped by six men who held him for 10 days and robbed him of more than $6,000, police said Friday.

The victim just before 5 a.m. on Friday called 911 after driving to NewYork-Presbyterian Queens.

He told responding officers, followed by detectives that on July 8 he had dinner with a friend on Long Island, with the friend driving him back to his car, parked in Flushing at 31st Rd. and Union St.

When the friend left, the victim said, he was set upon by six men, who tased him in the chest, then drove him in their car to an unknown location, according to police.

He was handcuffed at some point, police said, as the suspects tried to extract money from him. In the end, he told police he gave them about 900,000 yen, equivalent to more than $6,000, both wired from a bank account and from a cryptocurrency account.

It was not clear why the suspects targeted the victim or how wealthy they believed he was.

Police said that on Friday morning the suspects dropped the victim off back at his car, after which he drove to the hospital, though he decided once there that he did not require medical treatment.

In May, an Italian man escaped a downtown Manhattan apartment where he was tortured and held against his will for several weeks as his captors tried to get him to give up the password for his bitcoin account, police said.

Cryptocurrency investor John Woeltz and his associate, William Duplessie, have been charged in that case.

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