A San Fernando Valley man was indicted Tuesday for allegedly utilizing Instagram to submit and promote sexually specific images of highschool women with out their consent — and threatening to submit extra photographs in a sextortion scheme.
A federal grand jury charged Sylmar resident Alejandro Garcia Aranda, 23, with promoting youngster pornography, distributing youngster pornography and transmitting threatening communications with intent to extort, in line with a information launch from the U.S. Legal professional’s Workplace within the Central District of California.
The June 27 indictment alleges that Aranda marketed specific images on an Instagram account with the deal with “valleyhoezzz818,” whose said aim was to disgrace females within the Valley. He allegedly focused women who attended San Fernando Valley colleges and used Money App, Venmo, PayPal and Zelle to promote his sexually specific wares.
Authorities stated Aranda despatched clients the pictures via direct messages on Instagram after receiving funds. When the women found the images have been being marketed and distributed, Aranda allegedly tried to get extra images from them by threatening to submit extra photographs on-line.
If convicted, Aranda faces a compulsory minimal sentence of 15 years and a most of 30 years in federal jail for promoting youngster porn, 5 to twenty years for distributing youngster porn, and as much as two years for the extortion rely.
