A Washington man is charged with blackmailing several victims he met on a gay dating app, threatening to expose them to their friends and family if they didn’t sent him more x-rated videos.
22-year-old Christopher Malik “CJ” Longmire is accused of exchanging messages and photos with various men, then sending them screenshots indicating he had located their families and demanding they send him x-rated photos and videos of specific sex acts or be exposed.
This isn’t the first time Longmire has engaged in bad online behavior either.
In 2010, when he was just 14-years-old, he threatened to out a classmate if he didn’t send photos of himself performing specific sex acts. He later pleaded guilty in juvenile court to cyberstalking with sexual motivation and was sentenced to three days in juvenile detention.
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When asked why he did it, Longwire simply replied, “Because.”
A year later, he was sentenced to a year in detention for stalking a classmate by leaving letters at his house describing sex acts. “I’m in love with you,” one of the notes read, “and I’ll do what it takes to be with you.”
And in 2014, he was convicted and put on a sex offender registry for posing as a female to collect nude photos from a male classmate, then using those photos to create profiles on several gay dating sites.
Longwire has pleaded not guilty to three counts of second-degree extortion with sexual motivation in connection to the most recent allegations. After police searched his computer, he was also charged with possessing child pornography unrelated to the blackmail scheme.
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Kangol
He sounds like a sociopath. I hope the authorities are keeping a very close eye on him.
Cylest Brooks
Agreed.
Low Country Boy
Agreed; however, I don’t think keeping a very close eye on him is not enough. He needs intensive counseling, some jail time, and a ban from all computers.
Bob LaBlah
If any of you have the time do a google search on Markeith Rivers. He was shot because he would hookup with dl guys, video the encounter, put the tryst online and then contact the guys telling them what he had done. When you see his picture the first thing that will no doubt go thru your mind (as did mine) is who in their right mind got desperate enough to even look at this freakish looking guy let alone have sex with him.
Kangol
I know Markeith Rivers thought he was doing women a service by exposing those guys, but his actions were creepy and invasive, and an assault on their privacy, though no one should have tried to kill him for doing so. Just turn him over to the FBI. He still has the faces of guys he “exposed” up on various social media sites. There are many reasons why people may be DL/closeted, and exposing them like this, regardless of the consequences, put lots of lives in danger, including Rivers’. In terms of his looks, Bob, I didn’t find him attractive in the least, but if you look at the guys, you see a range, including some very attractive ones. Clearly their chief desire was sex with another man they could relate to. They just didn’t realize he was a wackjob.
Cylest Brooks
Wait, he was shot right? Non-lethal then if he’s still alive and keeping pics online? I’ve never heard of this guy, but that seems like a deeply misguided attempt to do any good at all. Did he serve time?
Heywood Jablowme
I don’t quite get this. “Expose them to their friends and family”? For being gay? Is he living in 1980? I’d have thought most 20-somethings today are already out and couldn’t be “blackmailed” for being gay.
Kangol
You’d be surprised. Quite a few people, including many in the US in their 20s, are still in the closet/DL.
Cylest Brooks
I agree with Kangol. My friend circle has lots of young folk (meaning early 20s) and I am frequently surprised by the number of them who still have to live on the DL in at least one important way. Either friends, family, job, etc.
I was surprised at first, too, since I see so many stories about young people being loved and welcomed by their families.
Unsurprisingly, location seems to be a big factor. Most of my city-dweller friends come from accepting families, while most of the ones who need to hide come from more rural areas. That hasn’t changed.
inbama
Just google Christopher Malik Longmire.
6′ tall, 280 lbs. and not pretty.
Mandrake
This sounds like an episode right out of “Black Mirror.”
JerseyMike
Mental illness is real…