
Blood Tribe man facing child porn, luring charges
LETHBRIDGE – A 20-year old Blood Tribe man has been arrested and charged on allegations that include child luring and accessing, possessing and distributing child pornography.
The arrest was the culmination of a joint investigation between ALERT’s Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) unit, Blood Tribe Police and the Lethbridge Police Service.
They took Skylar Pantherbone into custody on Aug. 17, after learning that an individual had “sextorted” an underage victim. Police say the individual hacked into a Lethbridge teen’s social media account and accessed private photos to sextort her.
The victim went to a Lethbridge Police School Resource Officer in March 2017, and with the help of ICE, they were able to track the hacker’s location and determine his identity.