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TribLIVE s Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. BOSTON A former track and field coach at Boston’s Northeastern University was arrested Wednesday and charged with using bogus social media accounts to try to trick female student-athletes into sending him nude photos of themselves, prosecutors said. Steve Waithe, 28, of Chicago, is accused of creating fake social media accounts to contact track and field athletes and offering to help get rid of compromising photos of them he claimed to have found online. Starting in at least February 2020, Waithe would send pictures he had obtained of the victims and try to persuade them to send more explicit photos to him so he could “reverse image search,” authorities said in court documents. ....
Track coach with Illinois ties charged with cyberstalking, harassment Track coach with Illinois ties charged with cyberstalking, harassment The FBI is seeking more victims in the case of a former track and field coach who worked at two local colleges: Concordia University in River Forest and IIT on Chicago s South Side. CHICAGO - The FBI is seeking more victims in the case of a former track and field coach who worked at two local colleges: Concordia University in River Forest and IIT on Waithe most recently coached at Northeastern University in Massachusetts, but in the late 2010s coached at both IIT and Concordia. ....
Former track coach accused of tricking athletes into sending nude photos Former college track coach charged in nude photos scheme By WCVB Staff | April 8, 2021 at 1:11 AM EDT - Updated April 8 at 1:15 AM BOSTON (WCVB) - A former Northeastern University track and field coach is accused of tricking female student-athletes into sending him hundreds of nude and semi-nude photos and cyberstalking at least one woman. Steve Waithe, 28, is in federal custody facing cyberstalking, extortion and fraud charges. He coached track and field for Northeastern, working with high jump and pole vaulters from 2018 to 2019. Steve Waithe, 28, is in federal custody facing cyberstalking, extortion and fraud charges. He coached track and field for Northeastern University from 2018 to 2019 before he was fired after an investigation of alleged inappropriate conduct toward female student-athletes. (Source: Heratch Photography/Northeastern University, WCVB via CNN) ....
Waithe was an All-American triple jumper at Penn State University. He later parlayed that experience into several coaching jobs, including at IIT for four months in 2017 and at Concordia. While Waithe was coaching at Northeastern in 2018, federal prosecutors alleged that he would ask for female athletes’ phones to record their form, but on several occasions he allegedly stole compromising images from the devices. Investigators have identified more than 10 victims of the “body development” scheme, according to the Associated Press. “It’s really disgusting and it’s really scary that somebody in the hierarchy here was doing that,” Northeastern student Heather Gamache said. ....