Playboy model ‘offered $4,000 bribe to get boyfriend out of jail’
A Playboy model has been charged with bribery of a public official while her boyfriend is on trial for drug and gun charges.
Shannon Teresa May Schwartz allegedly offered $5,000 to a Homeland Security special agent in a bid to secure the release of her boyfriend Billy Wilhelm Huntzinger.
Schwartz is a model who has appeared in Playboy magazine and was recently on the cover of Maxim New Zealand.
Huntzinger was arrested on drug and gun charges after he was found with a ‘ghost’ AR-15 style gun – meaning one without a serial number – and more than $5,000 of crystal meth.
He also had 205 rounds of Remington .223 caliber ammunition, prompting his arrest in Honolulu, Hawaii in January.
Police also allegedly found an empty Sig Sauer pistol magazine; a grenade pin; approximately 115 grams of a white substance believed to be crystal methamphetamine; about 5 grams of a substance believed to be cocaine; and two scales.
The special agent received multiple calls, texts and voicemails from Schwartz in late February, in which she allegedly offered bribes to release her boyfriend.
She is said to have texted him: ‘I can help with whatever you need $ not sure what your services cost.’
After the agent reportedly denied her requests to accept a bribe, she is alleged to have said: ‘Shannon Schwartz model. Google first. I’m not with the fed or the pd, I am just a model fyi.’
The agent reported Schwartz to his superiors and the US attorney’s office, before luring her to meet in person, where she was arrested and later released on a $25,000 bail.
Schwartz is also banned from contacting Huntzinger as he remains in custody awaiting trial.
Another former Playboy model was jailed earlier last year for her role in the murder of her 71-year-old ‘sugar daddy’ after he stopped paying her $3,200 rent.
Kelsey Turner and her then-boyfriend, Jon Kennison, beat Dr Thomas Burchard to death and stuffed his body in the boot of her car, prosecutors said.
Police reports showed Dr Burchard had been helping Turner pay her bills for two years before his death.
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