Stephen Allen Dayton

A Wampum man, who stole a woman's phone and hacked into it to access her nude self-portrait photographs, was sentenced Thursday to jail in two related cases.

Stephen Allen Dayton stole a phone that a woman had left behind in the Butler Arby's. Police said Dayton bypassed the phone's security feature, giving him access to her digital contacts and a wealth of nude photos.

Dayton was charged in two separate cases and after pleading guilty to selling obscene, sexual materials, a Butler judge sentenced him to 6 months to 1 year in jail followed by 2 years of probation. In the second case, Dayton pleaded guilty to theft of property lost by mistake and was sentenced to 9 to 23 months in jail. The sentences are to run simultaneously.

Police first became aware of the situation last year when a friend of the woman reported receiving a nude photo of the woman from an unknown number.

“Hi, how well do you know (the woman's name)?” Dayton allegedly said and sent along with a nude selfie of her apparently taken from her phone.

Dayton sent similar messages to other contacts he found in the woman's phone. He also sent photos of himself, some of them inappropriate.

Using a search warrant on Sprint, police were able to connect the unknown number to Dayton, along with transcripts of the messages.