US “Influencer” Charged For Visiting Remote Tribe

April 7, 2025 Crime, Idiocracy

The Associated Press reports:

Indian police have arrested a 24-year-old American Youtuber who visited an off-limits island in the Indian ocean and left an offering of a Diet Coke can and a coconut in an attempt to make contact with an isolated tribe known for attacking intruders. Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, from Scottsdale, Arizona, was arrested two days after he set foot on the restricted territory of North Sentinel Island in a bid to meet people from the reclusive Sentinelese tribe, police said.

A local court last week sent Polyakov to a 14-day judicial custody and he is set to appear again in the court on April 17. The charges carry a possible sentence of up to five years in prison and a fine. Indian authorities said they had informed the U.S. Embassy about the case. In 2018, an American missionary who landed illegally on the beach was killed by North Sentinel islanders who apparently shot him with arrows and then buried his body on the beach.

Read the full article. Polyakov was first detained last week. You may recall that the above-cited dead missionary, John Chau, was hailed by evangelicals as a “hero to the gospel.” In 2022, Chau’s name was added to an Oklahoma 60-foot-long granite “Martyr’s Memorial.”



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