GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — On Tuesday, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan Alexis Sanford announced that a South Carolina man was sentenced for extortion, stalking and five counts of wire fraud in connection to a sextortion scheme.
When the sextortion took place, 36-year-old Glenn Daeward Boyd from Kershaw, South Carolina was serving a sentence in a South Carolina prison for voluntary manslaughter, assault with intent to kill, assaulting a correctional employee and inciting a riot.
Evidence in the trial revealed Boyd had acquired a contraband cell phone in prison. He used that cell phone to create an account on the dating application “Plenty of Fish,” pretending to be “Jad,” an 18-year-old girl from Grand Rapids, Michigan…