The former lead nurse at the Mendocino County Jail was recently convicted of several sex-related felonies “initiated and perpetrated through an online scam known as catfishing,” the Mendocino County District Attorney reported.
According to the office of DA David Eyster, Blake Dylan Bradley Cox, 28, of Ukiah, pleaded “no contest” last week to “eight sex-related felonies and one misdemeanor in one case, and two additional firearm felonies in a second case.”
In what the DA describes as a “dogged investigation by the Ukiah Police Department that initially involved an allegation of misdemeanor domestic battery, it was also discovered that the defendant was in possession of eleven illegal assault weapons and twenty-seven other firearms.”
While that case was being tried, the DA reports that “the UPD continued analyzing seized evidence,” which included Cox’s cell phone, which reportedly had “overwhelming evidence of sex-related crimes, involving both juvenile and adults, that the defendant had initiated and perpetrated through an online scam known as catfishing.”
The DA described catfishing as “when a person, ‘the catfish’, uses false information and images to create a fake identity online with the intention to trick, harass, or scam another person. It is often found on social media or dating apps and websites, and is a common tactic used to form online relationships under false pretenses.”
According to the DA, Cox used “naked female images to create a fake female identity/persona (‘Jessica’) to trick male victims online into believing they are in a real online friendship and a developing sexual romance with the mysterious Jessica. The victims were eventually then lured by Jessica into meeting up with ‘one of her male friends’ (defendant Cox) and filmed in the backseat of a vehicle participating in oral and other sex acts with Cox (and the pictures were then) supposedly forwarded to Jessica.”
The DA explains that “the lure was that the victim would be sexually rewarded by Jessica for ‘helping out her male friend’ and ‘she’ promised that when they ultimately got together that she would participate in and fulfill any and all of the victim’s sexual fantasies; however, once Cox had a successful ‘meeting’ with Jessica’s suitor, the defendant’s online Jessica persona would disappear and the defendant would then ghost his victims.”
The DA notes that along with the “catfish conversation threads, pictures and videos, the defendant’s cell phone also contained images of illegal child pornography, as well as videos from a hidden camera placed to film an unsuspecting under-aged relative in all stages of disrobement.”
The DA explains that “the law enforcement agencies that diligently worked the cases against defendant Cox are the Ukiah Police Department and the DA’s in-house Bureau of Investigations, (with) special thanks extended to the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office for assisting with specialized report review and charging recommendations. Special thanks also to the California Attorney General’s Office working on behalf of the California Board of Nursing, (which) successfully obtained a court order to withhold the defendant’s nursing license while the defendant’s Mendocino County criminal charges are pending.”
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