Crime & Justice

Prisoners Catfished Soldiers From Behind Bars Posing as Underage Girls, Army Says

‘OPERATION SURPRISE PARTY’

A sextortion ring in South Carolina saw inmates and runners on the outside work together to extort troops after tricking them into believing they were propositioning minors.

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