Benjamin Yakah, 26, of Minnesota, has been arrested and charged with grand theft. Yakah met the widower on Facebook late last year, according to police. Yakah posed as a woman named “Julia ...

Benjamin Yakah, 26, is accused of stealing more than $100,000 from a Bradenton widower in an internet romance scam, according to BPD. The Bradenton widower, a 77-year-old, met a woman named ...

Benjamin Yakah, 26, is accused of stealing more than $100,000 from a Bradenton widower in an internet romance scam, according to BPD. The Bradenton widower, a 77-year-old, met a woman named ...

In what police are calling an "internet romance scam," 26-year-old Benjamin Yakah allegedly posed as a woman named Julia on Facebook. Late last year, this so-called Julia met the 77-year-old ...

Benjamin Yakah, 26, is accused of stealing more than $100,000 from a Bradenton widower in an internet romance scam, according to BPD. The Bradenton widower, a 77-year-old, met a woman named “Julia” on ...

Benjamin Yakah is being accused of stealing over $100,000 from the 77-year-old widower. The victim met Yakah’s alias “Julia” on Facebook, late last year. The two spoke for 8 months on ...

Benjamin Yakah mugshot courtesy of the Manatee County Sheriff's Office. "Our victim started paying, slowly but surely, giving chunks of change because, like he said, he was giving money to the woman ...