{"id":190712,"date":"2026-03-13T21:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T21:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/190712\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T21:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T21:13:11","slug":"jacksonville-man-charged-with-sexual-coercion-stalking-and-harassment-online-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/190712\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville man charged with sexual coercion, stalking and harassment online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A Jacksonville man arrested Friday is accused of sexual coercion, stalking, and harrassing several victims over the internet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Chapline is charged with the following:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Obstruction or retaliation<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was booked into Cherokee County Jail on bonds totalling $510,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Jacksonville man arrested Friday is accused of sexual coercion, stalking, and harrassing several victims over the internet.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[89046,89047,116,118,117,89044,89045],"class_list":["post-190712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-chapline","tag-chief-steven-markasy","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-sexual-coercion","tag-threats-and-intimidation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190712","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=190712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}