A Pennsylvania high school senior is being held without bond after he was charged with more than 300 counts relating a sextortion and catfishing scheme that targeted more than 20 minor victims. Zachariah Meyers, 18, is president of the senior class at Peters Township High School, where is is also an athlete, WPXI reports. A …
An Ohio grand jury has indicted a 21-year-old man on sextortion charges involving a minor in Missouri. Nicholas Scott is charged with sexual extortion, illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material, nine counts of endangering children, and three counts of nonconsensual dissemination of private sexual images, WLWT reported. The station said that the National …
A Pennsylvania coroner has ruled a 13-year-old boy’s death this summer as homicide due to sextortion. Levi Maciejewski was found dead of a gunshot wound in the backyard of his family’s home in Cumberland County in August, WGAL reported. District Attorney Sean McCormack confirmed the coroner’s ruling. “The circumstances leading up to his death, a …
a 30-year-old Minnesota man has been indicted in federal court with more than a dozen counts of child pornography in a sextortion scheme involving more than 60 young girls across the United States and abroad. Court documents say that Valentin Silva Quintana used social media apps to threaten, manipulate, and exploit the girls, who were …
Two Nigerian men charged as part of a sextortion ring that led to the suicide of a Michigan teenager arrived in the United States on Sunday to face charges. US Attorney for the Western District of Michigan Mark Totten announced the extradition of Samuel Ogoshi, 22, and Samson Ogoshi, 20, at a press conference at …
