Baltimore City State Senator Dalya Attar has been arrested and indicted on federal extortion and conspiracy charges, according to court documents obtained by FOX45 News. The Democrat, who represents Baltimore’s 41st District, faces allegations of abusing her political position to orchestrate a scheme involving surveillance and blackmail.

Attar, 35, was charged with eight counts related to planting tracking and recording devices on rivals, including secretly capturing footage of individuals in bed. Prosecutors allege she threatened to release the videos unless targets refrained from criticizing her publicly. The indictment specifically mentions a political consultant who had previously worked on Attar’s campaign but fell out with her after a dispute.

Court records reveal that Attar’s brother and an associate, Kalman Finkelstein, were also taken into custody. Federal investigators allege the scheme began in 2020 when members of Attar’s inner circle broke into an apartment linked to the consultant, installing cameras disguised as smoke detectors and planting a tracking device on their vehicle. In 2021, Attar allegedly pressured the consultant and a married man to silence them by threatening to leak the recordings.

Attar made history as the first Orthodox Jewish woman elected to the Maryland Senate in 2020. No details about potential penalties or her plans to resign have been disclosed. The case remains under investigation, with updates expected as more information emerges.