Former W&J Intern Coach Going To Prison

The United States Attorney out of Pittsburgh announced on Thursday that a resident of Washington and Duncansville, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in federal court for three counts of production and attempted production of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor.  United States District Judge Robert J. Colville sentenced 29-year-old Jacob Kolonis, a former Washington & Jefferson College intern coach, to 240 months’ imprisonment (20 years) followed by 10 years of supervised release and ordered that he pay restitution totaling $9,000 to his minor victims.  During Kolonis’ plea hearing on February 9, 2022, Kolonis admitted to threatening seven minor females with the intent to extort them for nude and sexually explicit images. On three of these occasions, Kolonis threatened the minors to create and send videos of themselves engaged in sexually explicit conduct over Snapchat.  He also admitted to extorting the minors for his own sexual gratification.  Prior to imposing sentence, the judge acknowledged that Kolonis had engaged in exceptionally serious conduct and recognized the immense impact of Kolonis’ crime on his victims.