‘Every Parent’s Worst Fears’: Youths Followed Home by Alleged Offender Using Location Sharing Data

Edmonton man accused of using Snapchat location feature to target minors

ALERT’s Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) unit is asking parents to review their children’s social media accounts, including location-sharing settings, after an 18-year-old Edmonton man was arrested for allegedly using Snapchat’s location-sharing function to locate the family home of two minors.

‘Every parent’s worst fears’: Youths followed home by alleged offender using location sharing data

Families are being warned about the danger of location sharing after a man allegedly used Snapchat to track down two youth he was victimizing online.

After 2 youths stalked on Snapchat, review your kid’s settings, police urge

Following the arrest of a child luring suspect in Edmonton, police are urging parents to review their kid's location sharing settings on social media apps like Snapchat.

Child luring suspect Arshdeep Singh's arrest prompts warning by Alberta police about location sharing

FOLLOWING the arrest of an Edmonton child luring suspect, ALERT’s Internet Child Exploitation unit is urging parents to review their children’s location sharing on popular social media apps. The warning comes following an ICE investigation in which an alleged offender tracked the location of two youths he had been victimizing online. The suspect allegedly tracked the […]

Alberta police say man charged with child luring used Snapchat location tool to track youth

An Edmonton man was arrested earlier this month for online child sexual exploitation, after using Snapchat to track two related youths and threatening them into sharing sexually explicit videos of themselves, according to the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT).

Man charged for allegedly possessing child porn, tracking, harassing youths

The Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT) says an 18-year-old has been charged for allegedly luring and harassing a teen and possessing child pornography. ALERT says its Internet Child Exploitation (ICE) unit began an investigation in August 2026 into a matter in which a man had allegedly tracked the location of two youths on Snapchat, whom […]