Former Northeastern University Coach Charged With Cyberstalking Student Athlete
Signage is displayed at Northeastern University in Boston on April 20, 2020.
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Former Northeastern University track and field coach Steve Waithe, 28, was charged today with one count of cyberstalking and one count of wire fraud for using bogus social media accounts to try to trick female student-athletes into sending him nude photos of themselves. He was arrested at his home in Chicago.
According to the criminal complaint, Waithe frequently requested to use female athletes’ cellphones under the pretense of filming their form at practice and at meets. And beginning in at least February 2020, Waithe allegedly perpetrated a scheme to dupe female Northeastern University track and field athletes into sending him the pictures.