Fugitive who hid in The Villages sentenced to 25 years in prison for sextortion of minors

A 22-year-old fugitive who was arrested in 2021 after being found hiding out in The Villages has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for coercing nearly two dozen underage girls into sending him nude photos and sexually explicit videos that he sold online.

Aden Willis Yeager, of Louisville, Kentucky, was sentenced in July to 25 years in federal prison for child sexual exploitation. Yeager, who pleaded guilty in March, will spend the rest of his life on probation after his release.

According to a plea agreement, in November 2020, the West Alabama Human Trafficking Task Force received a CyberTipline report from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children regarding sexual extortion (“sextortion”) of an underage female by Yeager.

Yeager coerced and enticed the underage female into sending him nude photos of herself, after which she sold the photos to other people online.

When the minor refused to send more photos, Yeager threatened to send her nude photos to everyone in her social media contact list.

During an investigation of Yeager’s DropBox account, FBI agents found 60 individual folders labeled with different women’s names. Each of the folders contained sexually explicit images and videos of underage females.

Officers were able to identify and locate at least 19 underage females who had been approached by Yeager to send pornographic images.

As part of his sentence, Yeager must also pay $92,620 in restitution to the victims and a $50,000 special levy under the Amy, Vicky and Andy Act, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Alabama.

Yearling was originally captured as a fugitive in 2021 while living in a mansion in Lake Sumter Landing.

Yeager was wanted by detectives at the time on several charges of sexual extortion, all involving minors under the age of 17.

Yeager is originally from Louisville, Kentucky and attended Trinity High School, an all-boys Catholic college preparatory school in St. Matthews, Kentucky, a city in the Louisville Metro area. In 2019, he was named a National Merit semifinalist at Trinity High School.

After his arrest in 2021, Yeager was released on bail and not arrested again until July 2023, when charges were filed against him in U.S. District Court.

The mansion where Yeager was arrested was purchased in June 2021 for $400,000 by Dennis Cayot and Julie Yeager-Cayot, real estate agents in Louisville, Kentucky.