A St. Johns County man who drew headlines last year for pulling his youth football team off the field over safety concerns has been arrested on charges that he shared sexually explicit videos of himself with a married woman after she tried to end their affair.
James Ray McDuffie, 51, was taken into custody following a warrant issued last week.
McDuffie met the married victim at the RiverTown community gym in February 2024, according to the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office,
The pair began a consensual sexual relationship that deteriorated months later when the woman sought to end the affair, court documents allege.
The victim, whose name The Citizen is withholding, told investigators that McDuffie began threatening to expose their trysts to her husband and others after she tried to sever ties.
“I’m never going to be able to let you go,” he allegedly said at one point. “I have to go nuclear.”
He then allegedly sent explicit videos of their encounters to a friend of the woman and posted harassing messages on her social media accounts, papers state.
She said she was unaware that she had been recorded during some sexual encounters at McDuffie’s home and never consented to any of them being disseminated.
Several videos and photos appeared to have been taken by hidden or strategically placed cameras, including inside McDuffie’s bedroom, according to court documents.
During a controlled phone call arranged by law enforcement, McDuffie allegedly acknowledged sending graphic...
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