A Texas man was arrested Thursday after he was accused of sexually extorting an adult and child in Bergen County, investigators said.
Detectives determined that an online stranger, identified Friday as Quristafer D. Land, of Dallas, contacted them through Snapchat and instructed them to record and send photos and videos of themselves engaged in sexual acts over the last few months, according to a statement from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office.
The office identified the scheme as sextortion which is the practice of extorting money or sexual favors from someone by threatening to reveal evidence of their sexual activity.
Land allegedly used the likeness of another person to create several online accounts used to facilitate the sexual extortion activity, the prosecutor’s office said.
Investigators ultimately traced the suspect’s social media activity to a home in Dallas, officials said. On Thursday, detectives from the office traveled to Dallas and executed a search warrant at the home with the help of local law enforcement.
Land was arrested and charged with first-degree production of child pornography, second-degree aggravated sexual extortion, third-degree sexual extortion and third-degree impersonation, officials said.
He was placed in custody by deputy U.S. marshals and officers from the Dallas Police Department and taken to the Dallas County Jail, the prosecutor’s office said. The suspect will be held there until he is extradited to New Jersey.
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