Sunnyvale man accused of trying to trick teens into sending him sexy photos
A 29-year-old Sunnyvale man is accused of trying to get a teenage girl to send him provocative photographs via text by pretending to be a relative.
Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s deputies said that last month they received information that an unknown suspect texted the girl, telling her it was her father and that he’d changed his cellphone number.
The suspect, whom deputies say is Scott Angelo, then told the teen that his co-worker’s daughter had a swimsuit line and asked if she was interested in modeling for the fictitious company.
Angelo would then give the teen another contact number of the fictitious swim suit company representative — who was in actuality still Angelo — and then directed the teen to take provocative photos send them to him.
After an in depth investigation, Santa Cruz and Santa Clara County Deputies linked Angelo to four additional cases in Santa Cruz County and one in each Indiana and Maryland.
Deputies arrested Angelo at his Sunnyvale home and seized at least 50 pictures solicited by Angelo of Santa Cruz County victims.
The Sheriff’s Office believes that additional victims may exist in our community and is asking that anyone with information regarding this investigation to contact Detective April Skalland at 454-7622.
