{"id":190646,"date":"2026-03-13T20:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/190646\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T20:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:24:15","slug":"jacksonville-man-charged-with-sexual-coercion-stalking-and-harassment-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/190646\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville man charged with sexual coercion, stalking and harassment online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacksonville Police said Dewayne Scott Chapline, 58, used threats and intimidation to coerce a victim into providing sexually explicit images online.<\/p>\n<p>JACKSONVILLE, Texas \u2014 A Jacksonville man arrested Friday is accused of sexual coercion, stalking, and harrassing several victims over the internet.<\/p>\n<p>According to Jacksonville Police, Dewayne Scott Chapline, 58, used threats and intimidation to coerce a victim into providing sexually explicit images. Chapline then allegedly used those images to continue threaning the victim and demanding more content.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was a complex and disturbing case that required numerous subpoenas, search warrants, and extensive digital forensic analysis to ultimately link the communications to the suspect,&#8221; Chief Steven Markasy said in a press release Friday. &#8220;I want to commend our investigators for the countless hours they dedicated to this investigation and their commitment to ensuring the victims in this case receive justice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chapline is charged with the following:<\/p>\n<p>Sexual coercionStalkingOnline impersonationObstruction or retaliationHarassment                    <\/p>\n<p>He was booked into Cherokee County Jail on bonds totalling $510,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Police said Dewayne Scott Chapline, 58, used threats and intimidation to coerce a victim into providing sexually&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-190646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}