WAYNE COUNTY – A 30-year-old man from Wayne County is facing multiple charges for producing and possessing child pornography after the FBI received an anonymous tip about the man allegedly threatening people, including minors, online.
The anonymous complaint, submitted online to the FBI Detroit Office in May 2026, claimed that Peter Caleb-Anthony Qaoud, of Westland, had been blackmailing “multiple women through Discord and VRchat communities with nudes, threatening their families, children and other horrible things to get what he wants.”
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“Some are most likely underage and he has threatened underage people,” the tip stated.
After receiving the tip, FBI investigators discovered that Instagram had submitted a cyber tip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in February, which allegedly included sexually explicit chat messages between an account associated with Qaoud’s email address and another user who identified themselves as a 16-year-old girl in their user profile.
According to court records, two sexually explicit videos of the minor were sent to Qaoud during the exchange that investigators say “clearly meet the federal definition of child pornography.”
Magistrate Judge Kimberly G. Altman of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan authorized a search warrant on June 2 for the FBI to access geolocation ping data for the phone number associated with the Instagram account in question, which traced back to Qaoud’s residence.
Qaoud was taken into custody and charged on Monday with one count of production of child pornography and attempt, one count for receipt of child pornography, and one count for possession of child pornography.