Former Marine Gets 40 Years for Extorting Minors as NCIS Ramps Up Efforts to Catch Online Predators

Lucian Nemoiu

A former Marine who exploited roughly two dozen minors, including by posing as a teenage girl online, was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Thursday. He extorted multiple victims into creating child sexual abuse material and threatened to release it to their friends and family. Anthony Fritzinger, 25, committed the offenses while he was an active-duty lance corporal in the Marine Corps at Cherry Point , North Carolina, according to his indictment and service record. His criminal conduct was