Former College Track Coach Pleads Guilty to Cyber Fraud and Cyberstalking

Steve Waithe admitted to tricking women into sending explicit photos, using sham social media accounts and invented personas.

Steve Waithe, a former college track and field coach, pleaded guilty to 12 counts of wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit computer fraud, one count of computer fraud, and one count of cyberstalking.
While working at Northeastern University, Waithe requested the cell phones of female student-athletes under the pretense of filming them at practice and at meets, but instead covertly sent himself explicit photos of the women that had previously been saved on their phones.
Waithe also used sham social media accounts to contact women, claiming he had found compromising photos of them online and offering to help them get the photos removed from the internet, asking them to send additional nude or semi-nude photos that he could purportedly use for 'reverse image searches'.
He invented at least two female personas to obtain nude and semi-nude photos of women under the purported premise of an 'athlete research' or 'body development' study.
Sentencing is scheduled for March 6, 2024. Waithe was originally arrested in April 2023.