http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/08/18/Two-charged-with-sex-for-rent-extortion/UPI-72321282182590/
Two women face charges after allegedly trying to extort money from a landlord by blackmailing him in a sex-for-rent scheme, Fairfax County, Va., police said.
Jessica Testin, 23, and Rachel Beloff, 26, are accused of offering sexual favors to their landlord in exchange for a month's rent, and then threatening to tell his wife about it if he didn't pay them, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.
In an affidavit filed Tuesday in Fairfax Circuit Court, Detective Mike Holland said the landlord -- whose name was not released -- went to the women's apartment and they told him to go into a bedroom and undress.
After one of the women "did a slow dance while removing some of her clothing" and jumped on the bed, the other woman grabbed the landlord's clothes and cellphone, Holland wrote. He eventually retrieved his belongings and left -- but police say the suspects called him and told him they had the incident on a DVD.
"Unless he gave them $500 per week and free rent," the affidavit said, "they would give a copy of the DVD to his wife."
The alleged victim reported the matter to police, and Holland instructed him to contact the women. During a telephone call, one of the women said she would turn over photos and video of the incident in exchange for $11,000, the affidavit said.
Police arrested the women Tuesday on a charge of felony threat to extort money. The crime is punishable by as much as 10 years in prison, the Post said.