American Youtube was arrested for allegedly sneaking onto the restricted territory of North Sentinel in the Andaman Islands and offering a can of diet coke to the tribe ...

An American tourist has been arrested after allegedly traveling to a remote island in the Bay of Bengal and attempting to ...

An American tourist was arrested after allegedly sneaking onto an isolated island in an attempt to meet a remote tribe ...

If he'd been successful, he might have spread a deadly disease to the Sentinelese people—or gotten himself killed.

But that didn’t stop American YouTuber Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov from planning a voyage to North Sentinel Island to try and make contact. In March 2025, the 24-year-old arrived at North ...

American YouTuber who entered island of isolated Indian tribe has bail plea rejected - Mykhailo Polyakov faces up to five years in prison for trying to contact indigenous tribe on North Sentinel Islan ...

Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, of Scottsdale, Arizona, left a Diet Coke and a coconut for the reclusive Sentinelese people, ...

Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, from Scottsdale, Arizona, was arrested on March 31, two days after he set foot on the restricted territory of North Sentinel Island — part of India’s Andaman and Nicobar ...

A 24-year-old man arrested in India, accused of visiting a forbidden island, was a University of Arizona graduate.

Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov will next appear before a local court in Port Blair — the capital of India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands — on April 29, police said. Polyakov, from Scottsdale ...

An American YouTuber was arrested by authorities in India after he allegedly tried to make contact with an isolated Sentinelese tribe on North Sentinel Island, part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands ...

A 24-year-old American YouTuber who visited a restricted island in the Indian Ocean last month with a Diet Coke as offering ...