A 25-year-old Sacramento man is being held without bail in Napa County Jail, accused of inducing three 14-year-old girls to send him nude photographs over Snapchat in exchange for vapes and other gifts. Derek Walaitis was arrested at his Sacramento home on October 12 and now faces 11 felony counts, including human trafficking and using a minor for commercial sex.
Arrest Followed Search of Sacramento Home
Napa police searched Walaitis' Sacramento home the same day he was arrested, according to The Napa Valley Register. Investigators said three Napa County girls, all 14 years old, sent him nude photographs through Snapchat, and that teenagers received nicotine and marijuana vapes along with other gifts in return for the images, per a police filing cited by the paper. He was booked into Napa County Jail and arraigned on the 11 counts two days later, on October 14.
The charges against him include human trafficking, using a minor for commercial sex, furnishing marijuana to minors, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and sending and possessing obscene matter, according to the Napa County arraignment. He is scheduled to appear in court again on October 28.
Snapchat Warrant Led to Additional Minor
Police obtained a search warrant to access Walaitis' Snapchat account, and the account allegedly identified another minor who had received vapes in exchange for sharing sexual images, according to an arrest report described by the newspaper's account. A phone examination further found that Walaitis redistributed other nude images involving one of the girls and directed her to make nude and explicit videos, including a video in which she stated her age, the outlet reported.
He also directed the same girl to take additional explicit videos, per the phone examination cited in the report. Separately, a police report described Walaitis as having bought cocaine and offered it to females of unknown ages in exchange for sexual favors. When officers searched his home, they seized vapes, cocaine and an envelope containing girls' Snapchat handles, according to the arrest filing.
Suspect Admits Some Conduct, Denies Rest
In a police interview, Walaitis admitted to providing vapes to Napa County residents and to using cocaine, but he denied the other allegations against him, the newspaper reported. The Napa County district attorney's office, led by District Attorney Allison Haley, said he could face five to 12 years in state prison if convicted of human trafficking.
Part of a Larger National Pattern
The case lands amid a sharp rise in reports of online enticement of children nationwide. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children says its CyberTipline received 1.4 million reports concerning online enticement in 2025, including more than 80,000 involving sextortion, according to the organization's CyberTipline data. The group also reported that child sex-trafficking reports to the tipline jumped 323% compared with 2024, and that it escalated more than 53,000 reports as urgent or involving a child in imminent danger.
NCMEC describes online enticement as grooming that can lead a child to produce sexually explicit images or ultimately meet an adult in person, occurring across gaming platforms, social media and messaging apps alike. The organization has also noted that buyers are increasingly approaching children directly online and offering payment for sex acts, without any apparent connection to a third-party trafficker.
Platform-specific scrutiny has intensified as well. A September release from the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary stated that Snapchat had logged more than 143,900 reports related to online enticement and more than 20,000 reports involving unsolicited obscene material sent to a minor, though the committee flagged quality issues with that reporting. None of these national or platform-level figures establish a trend specific to Napa County or to the Walaitis case.
