A Lehigh County man who attempted to use sex videos he had secretly recorded to blackmail an Upper Saucon Township woman was recently convicted of invasion of privacy and other charges.<\/p>\n
Jarrett Klinger, 42, of Slatington, was convicted following a trial by jury late last month.<\/p>\n
According to a news release from the Lehigh County District Attorney\u2019s office, the Upper Saucon Township woman is his ex-girlfriend.<\/p>\n
The woman told police in July 2022 that Klinger was harassing her, and authorities said a subsequent investigation revealed that Klinger had sent the woman a video of them having sex that had been filmed without her knowledge or consent.<\/p>\n
According to the DA\u2019s office, Klinger \u201cthreatened to release that and other videos if (the woman) didn\u2019t meet with him or talk to him.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to three counts of Invasion of Privacy, Klinger was also found guilty of one count each of Unlawful Dissemination of an Intimate Image and Harassment.<\/p>\n
The DA\u2019s office said that in addition to being required to register as a sex offender in Pennsylvania for 15 years, Klinger could face a maximum sentence of 7 to 14 years in state prison when he is sentenced by Lehigh County Judge James T. Anthony Aug. 26. At that time, a hearing to determine if Klinger meets the requirements to be classified as a sexually-violent predator will also be held.<\/p>\n
The news release indicated that following Klinger\u2019s conviction, his bail was revoked and he was remanded to the Lehigh County Jail.<\/p>\n
The case was investigated by Upper Saucon Township Police Sgt. Dane Carroll and Sgt. Deron Dorward and prosecuted by Senior Deputy District Attorney-Special Victims Unit Sarah K. Heimbach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Lehigh County man who attempted to use sex videos he had secretly recorded to blackmail an Upper…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,96345,1943,18301,27588,96346,433,206,1364,28534,1112,2795],"class_list":["post-221332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-blackmail","tag-extortion","tag-harassment","tag-invasion-of-privacy","tag-jarrett-klinger","tag-lehigh-county","tag-police","tag-sex","tag-slatington","tag-trial","tag-upper-saucon-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}