A 19-year-old Florida waitress allegedly tried to make a man’s double life cost him $20,000 after finding out he had a girlfriend while they were dating.
Nathalie Rodriguez Gonzalez was arrested Friday in Miami-Dade County on a felony threats/extortion charge after deputies accused her of using the man’s intimate photos as leverage, WPLG-TV reported.
The alleged victim first crossed paths with Rodriguez Gonzalez at the restaurant where she worked as a waitress, according to a Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office arrest report obtained by the outlet.
Deputies wrote that the pair started dating soon after, but Rodriguez Gonzalez later learned he had a girlfriend for the “entire time they were together.”
The discovery allegedly shifted the relationship from dates to demands.
Rodriguez Gonzalez texted the man seeking $20,000, the local news station reported, and warned that the amount would rise by another $5,000 if he refused.
His girlfriend was not the only person allegedly pulled into the threat.
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Deputies accused Rodriguez Gonzalez of warning that she would send the man’s intimate photos to both his girlfriend and business partner, then put the pictures on all of her social media accounts.
When the man would not pay, the affidavit said, one of the images was sent to his business partner.
Rodriguez Gonzalez also allegedly tried to get the girlfriend’s phone number from the business partner so the image could be sent there too.
Instagram came up as part of the alleged pressure campaign.
“Should I post this on my IG and tag everyone?” Rodriguez Gonzalez asked the business partner.
Detectives accused her of later sending the intimate photo to the girlfriend and telling her that a wire transfer could keep the image offline.
“This will genuinely get posted if he doesn’t wire me money btw,” Rodriguez Gonzalez wrote to the girlfriend.
The affidavit stated that Rodriguez Gonzalez later put a censored version of the photo on her TikTok page with other pictures.
The alleged messages did not stop after the image had already been shared.
“Give me my money, or I escalate this worse,” Rodriguez Gonzalez wrote in one message cited by investigators.
Another text allegedly tied the demand to deportation and threatened to reveal the man’s genitals and face.
“The deportation does not have to happen, but I want my money, if he doesn’t wire me the money his d**k will get posted followed by, your face, his face,” Rodriguez Gonzalez reportedly wrote.
In another thread, Rodriguez Gonzalez allegedly described the plan as a scam.
“Remember I was tryna scam him, I’m finally getting to it,” she wrote.
The man went to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office Kendall District station on Aug. 24 and identified Rodriguez Gonzalez in a photo.
Deputies arrested Rodriguez Gonzalez at her home shortly after 9 p.m. Friday before taking her to the Kendall District Station for questioning.
The affidavit said Rodriguez Gonzalez gave a “full confession” after Miranda warnings, while allegedly claiming she had only been joking about sending the photos.
Law & Crime reported that Rodriguez Gonzalez posted a $7,500 bond and was released from the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
Miami-Dade County Clerk of the Court and Comptroller records show Rodriguez Gonzalez is scheduled to appear in court on Oct. 27.
Another Miami-Dade arrest involved a 37-year-old man accused of battery after allegedly touching himself inappropriately while creeping behind a female employee at a Florida store, CBS News Miami reported.
In Virginia, another romance allegedly ended in murder after a teenager’s girlfriend received screenshots of his affair with an older co-worker.
Alexis Antonio Cedillos-Campos, 19, is accused of killing Carmen Lizet Puch, 42, near a trail in Great Falls Park last month, according to the Fairfax County Police Department.
Puch, a mother of one, worked with Cedillos-Campos at Bitez restaurant in Herndon, where police had previously said parts of their relationship “involve other people.”
NBC Washington reported that a criminal complaint later identified the alleged trigger: Cedillos-Campos had learned Puch “sent screenshots of their affair” to his girlfriend.
A witness told police Cedillos-Campos left work early in anger that night and said he was going to kill Puch, NBC Washington reported.
That witness allegedly heard Cedillos-Campos and Puch plan a meeting by phone around 1:30 a.m. Roughly two and a half hours later, the witness told police, Cedillos-Campos called back, confessed and abruptly ended the call.
Video from the restaurant allegedly placed Cedillos-Campos there the night of the killing with a large fixed-blade knife, black latex gloves and a water bottle.
Cedillos-Campos and Puch later ended up at Difficult Run Trail Park, an 800-acre park in McLean, where police said he stabbed her multiple times and poured gasoline siphoned from his motorcycle over her body.
A jogger found Puch around 6:45 a.m. on gravel beside her car near the trail, with gasoline on her body and multiple stab wounds to her upper body.
A water bottle that smelled of gasoline and a cellphone case were near Puch, but police said her phone was not there.
Phone records later showed the last number Puch contacted belonged to Cedillos-Campos.
An autopsy listed multiple sharp-force injuries as Puch’s preliminary cause of death, and her death was ruled a homicide.
Cedillos-Campos was arrested in Maryland with help from the US Marshals Service and Prince George’s County police, then later confessed during an interview.
