A 24-year-old American YouTuber remains in custody after attempting to make contact with the isolated Sentinelese tribe on a restricted island in the Indian Ocean.
Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, from Scottsdale, Arizona, was arrested on March 31—two days after he illegally entered North Sentinel Island, a protected area off-limits to visitors under Indian law. Authorities say Polyakov carried a can of Diet Coke during the encounter, though it remains unclear whether he made direct contact with any tribe members, AP reported.
On April 17, 2025, Indian police confirmed that Polyakov라이브 바카라 detention has been extended. He is scheduled to appear before a court in Port Blair, the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, on April 29.
He left a can of Diet Coke and a coconut as offering for the tribe this time after he failed to contact the Sentinelese. He shot a video of the island on his camera and collected some sand samples before returning to his boat.
“It may be claimed to be an adventure trip, but the fact is that there has been a violation of Indian laws. Outsiders meeting Sentinelese could endanger the tribe라이브 바카라 survival,” said a senior police officer, requesting anonymity as he isn’t authorized to speak about the case under investigation.
Polyakov is suspected of violating Indian laws that carry a possible sentence of up to five years in prison and a fine.
Visitors are banned from travelling within 3 miles (5 kilometres) of North Sentinel Island, whose population has been isolated from the rest of the world for thousands of years. The inhabitants use spears and bows and arrows to hunt the animals that roam the small, heavily forested island. Deeply suspicious of outsiders, they attack anyone who lands onto their beaches.
In 2018, an American missionary who landed illegally on the beach was killed by North Sentinelese Islanders who apparently shot him with arrows and then buried his body on the beach. In 2006, the Sentinelese killed two fishermen who had accidentally landed on the shore.
An official from the U.S. consulate visited Polyakov in jail earlier this week. “We take our commitment to assist U.S. citizens abroad seriously and are monitoring the situation,” the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi said in a statement, while declining to divulge further details due to privacy considerations.