India American Tourist Arrest

Indian police have arrested a 24-year-old American Youtuber who visited an off-limits island in the Indian ocean to try to establish contact with an isolated tribe known for attacking intruders. Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, a resident of 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 Islands. He left an offering of a Diet Coke can and a coconut in an attempt to meet people from the reclusive Sentinelese tribe, who have has been isolated from the rest of the world for thousands of years.