A Queens man was arrested and charged with coercion and harassment after holding his ex-girlfriend's Facebook profile hostage. Paul Franco changed Jessica Zamora-Anderson's sexual preference on her page, and then demanded cash if she wanted to regain control of her account. And it turns out Franco has a history of being a totally weird, manipulative guy.
He met the Guatemalan native and Queens College student on Facebook in 2008, when he told her he was an English teacher at her school. Surprise: he wasn't! She didn't find out until 2009 that he had lied, and is really a violent-tempered musician. He threatened her with a possibly non-existent sex tape, made her pay for his impounded car, and threw a phone at her, injuring her head. But the Facebook page was the last straw!
Earlier this month when she found out he had been holding it hostage, she finally called in authorities. She told the NY Post, "Half the people in my country have heard about this. It's destroyed my life. He said I was interested in women. I got a lot of requests for relationships with women—and he was the one accepting them."
