An Instagram star has just been sentenced to 14 years in prison for attempting to rob the domain with force

A social media celebrity was recently sentenced to 14 years in a federal prison for planning to use violence to coerce a stranger into giving control of the domain.

The celebrity, named Rossi Lorathio Adams II, nicknamed "Polo", currently holds a series of accounts on Instagram and other platforms known as State Snaps while attending Iowa State University. These accounts, which have been run by Adams since 2015, contain mostly risky or sexual content, featuring college girls. According to the Washington Post, one of these accounts has up to 1.5 million followers on Instagram.

However, Adams became increasingly frustrated by not being able to own the domain "doitforstate.com" - a domain similar to the popular hashtag (#DoItForState), which he often uses in comments and posts to millions of fans. Online. The domain name that coincides with Adams' slogan is in fact owned by Ethan Deyo, and this person has no connection with Adams at all.

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Rossi Lorathio Adams II

Adams tried to buy the domain name for the past two years but failed to achieve the goal because Deyo originally had no intention of selling it. At one point, Deyo asked to sell the domain name for $ 20,000, but Adams felt that the price was too high. Instead of giving up on buying doitforstate.com, Adams turned to intimidating domain owners. He once sent a gun-shaped emoji to one of Deyo's friends via SMS, and sometimes came to his doorstep.

Finally, in the summer of 2017, Adams decided to try a more threatening threat. He hired his cousin, a former convicted prisoner named Sherman Hopkins Jr, who now lives in a homeless area, to break into Deyo's house and point his gun at threatening Deyo to transfer the domain name. . Hopkins obeyed, appearing at Deyo's house with a taser and a pistol, disguised by wearing two . underwear on the head and wearing black glasses. Hopkins also brought a list of detailed instructions on how Deyo could transfer the domain name to Adams.

But "human nature is not a godsend," in a situation similar to a Hollywood action movie, Deyo somehow stripped the gun from Hopkins after being shot through his leg, and then shot with a few guns. Slash the attacker's chest. Luckily both are still alive.

As a result, Hopkins was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2017, and Adams just went to court in April this year, and was sentenced earlier this week.

Reference: TheVerge