The shadow of a hand holding a key in front of a group of Airbnb logos.
The 51-year-old man was sentenced to prison time for stalking a former guest in his mother's Airbnb.
  • A man living in his mother's Airbnb home secretly filmed a guest naked and then tried to blackmail her, prosecutors allege.
  • Kevin Strutz of Ceres, California, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to over 3 years in prison. 
  • Prosecutors say Strutz admitted to hiding a cell phone camera in a basket on the bathroom counter. 

The son of an Airbnb host was sentenced to prison in connection to allegations that he secretly filmed a guest in the shower and tried to blackmail her into sending him an explicit video.