A Bentonville man admitted to police he obtained sexually explicit photographs of a woman and then used the threat of leaking the images in an attempt to get more photographs, according to court documents.
Anthony Don Oliver, 20, was arrested Tuesday on a preliminary charge of sexual extortion. Prosecutors haven't filed formal charges.
He was being held in the Benton County jail on Wednesday with no bail set.
The woman told police someone contacted her by phone two years ago and asked her to send nude photographs. She also said she believed someone had been stalking her for several years by telephone and social media, according to a probable cause affidavit.
She reported in June her Snapchat account was hacked and someone attempted to hack her Instagram account and changed her account's email address.
Bentonville police began investigating in August after the woman told investigators an unknown male obtained nude photographs of her from her Snapchat account and demanded she send more nude pictures and videos, according to the affidavit. The woman said the man threatened to release the remaining photographs if she didn't follow his requests, police reported.
Authorities said they obtained a warrant and traced the communication to Oliver. The woman told police she once worked with Oliver, and she had turned down his request for a date, according to the affidavit.
Oliver told police he had been logging onto the woman's Snapchat account since 2017 after he asked her to send him a password to help him with a project at work, according to court documents. Oliver admitted to using the password to log into the woman's Snapchat and her email and Instagram accounts, the affidavit states.
According to police, he admitted asking the woman to send him sexually explicit and nude photographs. Oliver said he "hinted around leaking them," but he never intended on releasing the images, the affidavit states. Oliver said his main purpose was to get more explicit photographs, police wrote.
Oliver told investigators he sent messages to some of the woman's contacts asking for nude pictures. He said he didn't post any of the photographs from her Snapchat account on the Internet, according to the affidavit.