By                                                     Charlie Osborne

Three Texan men jailed after using Grindr to find targets for theft, kidnap, assault

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2021-06-25 22:30:11

By Charlie Osborne for Zero Day | June 25, 2021 -- 12:49 GMT (05:49 PDT) | Topic: Security

Michael Atkinson, Pablo Ceniceros-Deleon, and Daryl Henry, 28, 21, and 24-years-old, respectively, deliberately targeted men believed to be homosexual in what the US Department of Justice (DoJ) calls "bias-motivated violence."

Grinder is a social networking and dating app for the LBTQI community. The trio, located in Texas, abused the app to find victims for crimes including kidnapping, carjacking, theft, and assault. 

The crimes included luring innocent men to apartments and holding them at gunpoint -- carjacking their vehicles, and using further threats of violence to force them to withdraw cash from ATMs. 

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