American YouTuber Arrested for Risky Trip to Remote Island Home to Isolated Sentinelese Tribe

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A thrill-seeking YouTuber selfishly put the plant’s most isolated tribe at by illegally landing on North Sentinel Island in the Bay of Bengal — and leaving behind a can of diet cola, lawmen charge.

American tourist Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, was arrested for allegedly trespassing on the prohibited reserve in India — more than three years after he documented his risky jaunt to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

The forested paradise is home to the Indigenous Sentinelese — a reclusive population of about 150 — who shun the outside world and have no immunity to modern diseases.

Officials charge that the idiotic influencer from Scottsdale, Ariz., journeyed nine hours in a small dinghy to the off-limits land mass, which measures just 23 square miles.
An arrest report alleges incriminating footage was found on Polyakov’s camera that showed him “claiming unofficial representation of the U.S.” while alighting on North Sentinel.

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The document states that Polyakov didn’t make direct contact with the tribe — but left behind a Diet Coke and a coconut as “offerings.”

The report further charges that the disruptive dodo “remained offshore for an hour, blowing a whistle in an attempt to attract attention, but received no response.”

Fishermen told authorities they saw Polyakov making his retreat.

Travel within three nautical miles of North Sentinel was prohibited by India’s government in 1956 — but that hasn’t stopped some foolhardy folks. As The National
ENQUIRER reported in 2018, American missionary John Allen Chau’s attempt to convert the Sentinelese to Christianity ended in his death in a hail of arrows.

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Speaking of the island, 26-year-old Chau, of Vancouver, Wash., wrote in his diary: “Is this Satan’s last stronghold?” He then hired a boat for $325 to take him to the forbidden location, where he waded into the water shouting, “I love you — and Jesus loves you.”

But witnesses say the Sentinelese people — who have harbored suspicions about outsiders since their 19th century run-ins with British colonial officials — shot Chau’s Bible with an arrow before piercing his body with more projectiles and dragging off his corpse, which was never recovered.

Now, Polyakov is charged with entering a prohibited zone — and faces up to eight years in prison if convicted.