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

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 ...

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

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 ...

An American tourist was arrested after allegedly sneaking onto an isolated island in an attempt to meet a remote tribe untouched by the modern world — and leaving a coconut and a can of Diet Coke.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

The university confirmed it did have a record of a student named Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov who attended the university and completed both an undergraduate and graduate degree. Polyakov was ...

Un YouTuber estadounidense de 24 años que fue arrestado tras visitar una isla prohibida en el Océano Índico con la esperanza ...

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 ...