Brindler, I'm Nancy Grace, breaking crime news now, Andrew Vanegas 23, a friend's high

school girls and college women over Snapchat, then hacks their accounts.

He steals nude photos, then blackmails the girls and sending more porn photos and videos.

Vanegas sells the photos via, quote, telegram, advertising them specifically as, underage

blackmail porn.

What a creep.

Couldn't agree more, Nancy.

The FBI began their investigation with an account under the name Starkey LOL on a website

made to share explicit images of women.

They later tied that username back to Vanegas by tracing cryptocurrency payments.

Vanegas had uploaded nearly 1,000 images and videos of often underage women and advertised

them for sale and packages.

FBI agents posed as buyers on the encrypted messaging platform telegram just before a

rate of Vanegas' home.

When the messages appeared on his phone, it proved Vanegas was responsible for the blackmail.

Vanegas now charged with sex exploitation of children.

Michael Brennan 24 charges 3 grand to a stolen credit card to reserve a 17-day stay at

a Florida hotel.

Cops track him to his room and find multiple driver's licenses, social security cards, credit

cards under all sorts of different names, and arrest him for identity fraud.

While Brennan's booked into jail, he's warned, contraband on his person would get additional

charges.

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