July 29, 2022
LONDON, ON – A Sarnia man is facing charges in relation to the criminal harassment of four separate people, spanning back to 2019.
In 2019, a Sarnia female began conversing with a man over a social media platform.
She agreed to meet with the man, and eventually entered into a relationship with him. During the summer of 2019, the female was sexually assaulted by the suspect. Between 2019 – 2022, the victim began to receive threatening messages from an unknown person, believed to be the suspect, over various social media platforms.
The messages contained threats to share intimate images and videos of the victim if she did not provide him with additional images.
In 2020, a male friend of the female also began receiving harassing text messages from the same phone number.
In 2021, another female, unknown to the original victim, received threatening text messages from the same phone number. The female changed her cellphone number, and it was reassigned to another subscriber.
.The suspect continued to send harassing and sexually explicit messages to the cell phone number, which had since been reassigned to a teenaged boy in 2022.
The aforementioned incidents were reported to the Sarnia police, however a suspect was not identified.
In February of 2022, a London woman began receiving harassing, threatening and explicit messages from the suspect phone number. The messages included requests for sexual services in exchange for money.
The woman declined the requests and on June 21, 2022, she reported the incidents to police.
An investigation commenced, and officers were able to determine that the number involved in each of the incidents was registered through a text messaging application and belonged to a Sarnia man.
On July 21, 2022, members of the LPS Human Trafficking Unit executed a search warrant at an address on Emma Street in Sarnia. A suspect was arrested.
As a result of the investigation, James Trevor Munroe, 31, of Sarnia, has been charged with the following Criminal Code offences:
• Four (4) counts of criminal harassment by repeated communication;
• Three (3) counts of uttering threats of death or bodily harm;
• Two (2) counts of extortion;
• Two (2) counts of obtain sexual services for consideration;
• Sexual assault;
• Print/publish/possess to publish child pornography; and
• Procuring.
This investigation remains ongoing. Investigators are appealing to members of the public to contact them if they have any information in relation to this investigation, or if they had similar dealings with the accused and/or the phone number 548-485-5758 (which is no longer assigned). A photo of the accused is attached.
The accused remains in custody. He appeared in London court on July 22, 2022 in relation to the charges, and is scheduled to reappear today by way of video.
Anyone with information in relation to this incident is asked to call the London Police Service at (519) 661-5670 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
https://www.londonpolice.ca/en/news/ht-22-54395.aspx
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