GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Five Americans have been charged with money laundering conspiracy charges connected to an international sextortion scheme that led to the death of a teenager from the Upper Peninsula.
Mark Totten, the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Michigan, announced the charges Friday morning. The five men were arrested Thursday by federal agents and made their first appearances in court. They are expected to be arraigned in federal court in Grand Rapids in the coming weeks.
The defendants are Brian Coldmon, 30, and Johnathan Green of Stone Mountain, Georgia, Kendall London Jr., 32, of Lithonia, Georgia, Dinsimore Robinson, 30, of Huntsville, Alabama, and Jarell Williams, 31, of McDonough, Georgia.
