Lydia Blackstone reports:
A 20-year-old Best Buy employee is jailed in Savannah after police said he helped a group of suspected shoplifters walk out of the store with more than $40,000 in merchandise, claiming he was pressured by online blackmail threats.
Dorian Allen is charged with theft by taking, according to a Savannah Police Department report obtained by WJCL-TV. Investigators said the losses were tied to repeated thefts at the Best Buy on Abercorn Street.
Allen told officers he was targeted by what he described as a “hacker group” and received emails identifying shoppers he was instructed to let leave without paying, the report said. He claimed the senders threatened to release nude photos of him online if he did not comply. Police said Allen could not provide names, email addresses or physical descriptions of the people he said were blackmailing him.
Read more at WJCL.