San Francisco (AP) – Three years after the California teenager died suicide, four men in Western Africa were arrested for suspicion of participating in the “international sex scheme”.
According to a statement on Friday, the US Ministry of Justice was the death of Ryan Last, 17 -year -old senior secondary school, seventeen -year -old senior high school.
Last time with someone matched online On the meta platform of social media He believed she was a young woman who sent him explicit photographs. Teen returned to similar photographs of himself and was immediately hit by extortion. The frightened photographs would be exposed, the last time they died suicide, statements.
In April, the blackmail was arrested in Cote d’Avoire, the officials said. At the time of his arrest, the suspect “He still had the news of the Sexition, which he sent 17 -year -old victims in February 2022 on his phone,” he said. Teen, from San Jose, paid him $ 150. The city is about 42 miles (68 kilometers) southeast of San Francisco.
Three other men in Cote d’Avoire were arrested for money laundering fees. He said that men focused on “thousands of victims” in the US, Canada and Europe.
Since Cote d’Avoire does not give citizens, these four men will face accusations of computer crime in their own country, the officials said. The fifth man arrested in Los Angeles in December 2022 was convicted of blackmail and was sentenced to 1 1/2 years in prison.
In the US, the case was investigated by the FBI, the police department of San Jose and the Technology Society of Meta, which he attributed to the implementation of critical information to help identify the suspects.
There were two brothers from Nigeria in a similar case convicted in 2024 up to 17 1/2 years in a federal prison confession with sexually blackmailing teens to boys And young men across the US, including 17 -year -old from Michigan, who took his own life.
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