Bucks County man accused of targeting women, underage girls in nationwide sextortion
David Ajiri, 25, of Bensalem, surrendered to authorities in Colorado on Monday, police said.
A 25-year-old Bensalem man was arrested this week for allegedly targeting women and underage girls for sextortion across the country using social media and dating apps, police said.
David Ajiri surrendered to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office in Colorado on Monday on an arrest warrant for criminal extortion obtained by the police department in Arvada, a city just outside of Denver. The Bensalem Township Police Department assisted with the case.
One victim has been identified, but detectives believe there are many more victims, police said.
Ajiri allegedly has targeted women and girls as young as 14 years old since 2018, police said.
He allegedly used social media, dating, and friendship apps to contact victims, then convinced them to send “intimate images or videos” in exchange for payments, police said. The victims were never paid.
Ajiri allegedly threatened to send images or videos to the friends, family members, or social media contacts unless the victims continued to provide explicit content, money, or both, police said.
The victims allegedly were sometimes sent detailed lists of specific images and videos they were told to provide, and some of the content may have been sold online, police said.
The Arvada Police Department posted a list of fake names and accounts Ajiri allegedly used, and asked anyone who believes they may have been a sextortion victim in the case to contact the Arvada Police Department at 720-898-7171 and reference Case #AR25004692.