A 20-year-old Best Buy employee in Savannah has been jailed 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. 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.
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.