Coach’s ‘sextortion’ scheme unravels when student figures out who he is, US feds say

The teenager was one of four students Joshua Rico, 27, of Pecos, New Mexico, coerced into sending explicit photos and videos while using fake Snapchat accounts beginning in 2018, according to prosecutors. — Using mobile photo created by Dragana_Gordic - www.freepik.com

After prosecutors say a New Mexico high school coach manipulated a student into sending him nude photos, she isolated herself from friends and family, spent most days in her room and stopped participating in class, court documents show.

At first, she didn’t know that two people she had been communicating with over Snapchat when she was 13 and 14 were the same person – her school’s assistant basketball coach, who was running a “sextortion” scheme with two fake profiles, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the District of New Mexico.