Minnesota Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Teen Sexstortion Scheme

St. Paul, MN (MinnesotaNow)- A Minnesota man has received a federal prison sentence after being convicted in a federal extortion case. 

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The Twin Cities resident entered a guilty plea in the case earlier this year. 

A news release issued by the U.S. Attorney’s Office of Minnesota, which prosecuted the case, indicates his sentence is well above the mandatory minimum. 

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Woodbury Man Gets Multi-Decade Prison Sentence for Sexstortion Conviction

38-year-old Timothy Lennard Gebhart of Woodbury pleaded guilty in March to two counts of child pornography production, one count of child pornography distribution, and one count of interstate communication with the intent to extort. 

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Court documents accuse him of coercing a 16-year-old and 14-year-old into engaging in sexually explicit conduct to make pornographic videos. Gebhart would then use his phone and computer to share the videos.

He was also accused of using the videos to blackmail the 16-year-old victim into giving him money and other items of value, threatening to share the sexually explicit content of the victim with their family and friends, federal court documents say. 

He was alleged to have conducted the scheme from July 2021 until September 2023. 

Gebhart was sentenced to 30 years in prison. His time behind bars will be followed by a 10-year supervised release term.