Cops Search Home to Connect Crawford Case

German Police said they searched a home in Stuttgart in connection with an alleged extortion case involving the family of former supermodel Cindy Crawford on Sunday, Nov. 15.

U.S. authorities reported Thursday a German man, Edis Kayalar, was charged in the U.S. with attempt to extort $100,000 for a picture of Crawford's daughter. The picture showed Crawford's daughter, then 7, gagged and bound to a chair. Kayalar threatened to make the photograph public.

Crawford and her entrepreneur husband Rande Gerber were unaware of the photograph. The Associated Press reports the daughter told her parents a former nanny took the picture as part of a "cops and robbers" game, according to an affidavit.

Police would not confirm the apartment they searched belonged to the 26-year-old suspect. German authorities confiscated several items from the home, but would not say where Kayalar was or whether or not he had been charged in Germany.

Kayalar has been charged with one count extortion; he faces two years in the prison.