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A former NCAA track and field coach arrested last year on charges he used sham social media accounts to deceive female student-athletes into sending him nude photographs of themselves has been arrested again for secretly continuing the sordid scheme while free on pre-trial release, according to a new court filing obtained by The Daily Beast.
Steve Waithe Jr., who coached the Northeastern University women’s team in Boston from Oct. 2018 to Feb. 2019, used his parents’ electronic devices to access his Instagram account “at least 135 times” since his initial arrest in April 2021, the filing states. In it, a federal probation officer requests Waithe be locked up for allegedly using the platform to pester women for, among other things, “your most confident sensual picture.”
A Chicago native, Waithe has also coached at Penn State, Illinois Tech, the University of Tennessee, and Concordia University Chicago. In case filings, investigators said they found hundreds of nude and semi-nude pictures of unsuspecting women in a search of Waithe’s email account.