High School Sports Director Charged with Sex in NY – Telemundo New York (47)

NEW YORK – A Westchester County high school athletic director has been arrested in a sextortion plot targeting a teenager, according to prosecutors.

Thomas Puccini was arrested Nov. 1 and booked on grand theft charges, the Westchester County district attorney said Monday. Puccini, 28, who was the interim director of Physical Education, Health and Athletics, received sexual images and videos of the teen starting when the victim was just 17 years old, according to the charges. .

Puccini allegedly threatened for two years to reveal sensitive information about the victim if the teenager did not post sexual images and videos through social media apps, Westchester County District Attorney Miriam Rocah said. The contact is said to have taken place between November 2021 and November 2023 via Snapchat and mobile payment service CashApp.

“Pressuring and threatening people for sexual content, also known as ‘sextortion,’ is increasingly targeting our young people and is a crime,” said Rocah.

Since grand theft is not a charge, Puccini was released after his arrest. Information about his attorney was not immediately clear.

The district attorney’s office urged any other possible victims of Puccini, or anyone with other information about possible victims, to contact them at (914) 995-TIPS (8477).