HONOLULU — A federal judge sentenced a Honolulu man to 15 years in prison for trying to blackmail a teen girl into having sex with him using topless photos.
A federal judge also sentenced 33-year-old Dustin Miyakawa to 20 years of supervised release following his prison term.
Miyakawa pleaded guilty to attempted coercion and enticement of a minor and faced 10 years to life in prison. The prosecution recommended a 14-year term but the judge chose to hand down a longer sentence.
“This 15-year sentence reflects the seriousness of Miyakawa’s criminal conduct and sends a powerful message to child sex predators in our community about the consequences of their criminal behavior,” U.S. Attorney Kenji Price said.
Miyakawa met a 15-year-old girl on social media in 2018 and offered to take photographs to help start her modeling career. He told the girl he was a Honolulu Magazine photographer, asked her age and pressured her into posing for topless photographs, federal investigators said.
He offered the girl money in exchange for sex and when she refused Miyakawa threatened to publicly share the topless photos, authorities said.
Two other girls with similar stories were identified during the investigation, authorities said.
Miyakawa was on probation at the time of his May 2018 arrest for convictions in Washington state in 2006 for offering money to an 11-year-old girl and a 14-year-old girl to kiss him, authorities said.