Teecht. Massachusetts Human Pleads Guilty To 25 Offenses Associated Amongst Cyberstalking Old Housemate Together With Others

H5N1 Newton, Massachusetts man, who was charged amongst conducting an extensive cyberstalking drive against his quondam housemate, her solid unit of measurement members, co-workers, friends, as well as others, pleaded guilty today inwards federal courtroom inwards Boston to all charges inwards a 25-count Information.

Ryan S. Lin, 25, pleaded guilty to vii counts of cyberstalking, 5 counts of distribution of kid pornography, ix counts of making hoax bomb threats, iii counts of calculator fraud as well as abuse as well as 1 count of aggravated identity theft.   As business office of Lin’s plea agreement, Lin agreed to endure sentenced to a minimum of vii years as well as a maximum of 17 ½ years inwards prison.   Judge William G. Young scheduled the sentencing hearing for Sep. 14. Lin was arrested inwards Oct 2017 as well as has been held inwards custody since.

Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Andrew E. Lelling for the District of Massachusetts, Special Agent inwards Charge Harold H. Shaw of the FBI Boston Field Office as well as Waltham Police Chief Keith MacPherson made the proclamation today.

According to the Information to which Lin pleaded guilty, from nigh May 2016 through Oct. 5, 2017, Lin engaged inwards an extensive cyberstalking drive against a 24-year-old woman soul victim. Lin, the victim’s quondam housemate, hacked into the victim’s online accounts as well as devices as well as stole the victim’s private photographs, personally identifiable information, as well as private diary entries, which contained highly sensitive details nigh her medical, psychological as well as sexual history, as well as distributed the victim’s cloth to hundreds of people associated amongst her.

Lin every bit good created as well as posted fraudulent online profiles inwards the victim’s shout as well as solicited rape fantasies, including “gang bang” as well as other sexual activities, which inwards plow caused men to present upward at the victim’s home. Lin engaged inwards a release of other activities targeting the woman soul victim, including relentless anonymous text messaging as well as additional hoaxes, from before long afterwards he met her until Oct 2017.   

In add-on to his quondam housemate, Lin engaged inwards cyberstalking action aimed at 6 additional individuals. Some were associated amongst the quondam housemate, as well as others were alone unrelated. The additional victims include a woman soul victim that was every bit good Lin’s housemate inwards Newton at the fourth dimension of his arrest. On multiple occasions, Lin sent sexually explicit images of prepubescent children on an unsolicited the world to the victim’s mother, the victim’s co-worker as well as housemate, a friend of the victim who resided inwards New Jersey, as well as 2 of Lin’s quondam classmates inwards New York.

In add-on to the cyberstalking activity, Lin falsely as well as repeatedly reported to police line enforcement that in that place were bombs at the victim’s Waltham, Massachusetts residence. Lin every bit good created a simulated social media profile inwards the shout of the victim’s housemate inwards Waltham as well as posted that he was going to “shoot up” a schoolhouse inwards Waltham, stating that in that place would endure “blood as well as corpses everywhere.”  These threats expanded beyond Waltham as well as became business office of an extensive as well as prolonged designing of threats to local schools, private homes, businesses, as well as other institutions inwards the broader community.  Ultimately, Lin pleaded guilty to having made over 100 bomb threats, including 24 inwards a unmarried day.

The investigation was conducted yesteryear the FBI’s Boston Field Office as well as the Waltham Police Department.  The Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office as well as Watertown, Newton as well as Wellesley Police Departments assisted inwards the investigation. Senior Trial Attorney Mona Sedky of the Criminal Division’s Computer Crime as well as Intellectual Property Section as well as Assistant U.S. Attorney Amy Harman Burkart, Chief of Lelling’s Cybercrime Unit are prosecuting the case.