Special Agents with the FBI arrested a Chicago-area man Friday night on federal charges of interstate stalking for allegedly taking nude videos of a television broadcaster and posting those videos on the Internet after attempting to sell the videos to a celebrity website.

Michael David Barrett, 48, of Westmont, Illinois, was taken into custody without incident at Chicago O’Hare Airport after being named in a criminal complaint filed late Friday afternoon in United States District Court in Los Angeles. Barrett made his initial appearance in United States District Court in Chicago on Saturday morning and was ordered to appear in federal court in Los Angeles on October 23. This morning, Barrett was released on bond.
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