Texas Man Who Used Grindr To Rob And Sexually Assault Gay Men Sentenced To 23 Years In Prison
There are at least one million reasons why I have never used Grindr (or any hookup app). Here’s reason #988,103, via NBC News:
A Texas man was sentenced to 23 years in federal prison for using an LGBTQ dating app to commit violent hate crimes against gay men, officials said Wednesday. Daniel Jenkins, 22, pleaded guilty in June to committing a series of robberies, carjackings and other crimes in the Dallas area in December 2017, the Justice Department said in a statement. Jenkins, the last of four co-conspirators charged in the scheme, faced the stiffest sentence of the group. The four men created fake profiles on the popular men’s dating app Grindr to lure nine men to an apartment complex in Dallas. When the victims arrived, they were held at gunpoint and forced to drive to ATMs to withdraw cash from their accounts. […] The Justice Department said four of the victims were physically assaulted, three were sexually assaulted, and one was wiped with urine and feces.
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