Niantic removes Pokémon Go stop located on Jeffrey Epstein’s island

The mobile video game developer Nianticresponsible for Pokémon Gohas removed a ‘PokéStop’ located on Little Saint James Island, which belonged to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

‘PokéStops’ are points of interest in the real world (monuments, parks, museums, etc.) where Pokémon Go players can get free bonuses. To use them, players have to be about 80 meters from the area.

However, many players violated the rules of the game faking your location to “visit” Epstein’s Island, where they discovered a ‘Poke Parade’ called ‘Sundial’.

Epstein Island has a Pokémon GO PokéStop. pic.twitter.com/4HpgRznFzO

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After the publication of screenshots on X and Reddit, which showed the ‘Pokéstop’ next to a photo of a sundial on the island (taken from a YouTube video), Niantic confirmed to the Gaming Bible portal that this “point of interest” had been removed from the game.

In a deleted Reddit thread, a user explained that at some point between 2020 and 2021, Niantic passed location data from the game Ingress to Pokémon Go, including Little Saint James Island, possibly at the request of a player who spoofed their location.