A veteran’s suicide was blamed on depression. Then police found threatening texts sent from prison.

By Antonia Noori Farzan Antonia Noori Farzan Reporter for the Morning Mix Email Bio Follow May 14 at 6:11 AM At first, Jared Johns’ death had the contours of an all-too-familiar tragedy.

John William Dobbins, 59, and Carl Richard Smith, 43, are now being charged with blackmail in connection with Johns’ death, which police have linked to a massive “sextortion ring” that was uncovered by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service last fall. Nicknamed “Operation Surprise Party,” the investigation found that South Carolina inmates had been using contraband cellphones to join dating sites like POF and pose as attractive young women.

Though he was no longer an active-duty service member, Johns apparently fell victim to the same scheme. “It wasn’t that he was depressed,” his father, Kevin Johns, told the News. “My son was fighting PTSD, and he was really overcoming it.” Demanding that Johns send them $1,189, the alleged blackmailers accused him of soliciting nude photographs from their underage daughter. Johns, seemingly bewildered, said that he had no memory of talking to the teenager. In the final text message exchange, which took place at 11:59 a.m. on Sept. 11, the man claiming to be the girl’s father informed Johns that “she is going to the police and you are going to jail.

Will the inmates be charged with facilitating a murder? or something similar? If not, there are no consequences to their actions.

We’re a sick-ass species.

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There good at cover ups so don't blink on them...

I wonder how many such acts this guy perpetrated on the people who were unfortunate enough to be born and live where he was stationed.

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