[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Hawaii man tormented a Utah family for over a year by sending more than 500 people to their house for unwanted services including food deliveries, repairs, tow trucks, locksmiths, plumbers and hookers, according to a US prosecutor who called it "extreme cyberstalking."Loren Okamura is scheduled for a detention hearing Wednesday afternoon in Honolulu’s federal courthouse following his arrest last week. He was indicted last month on charges of cyberstalking, interstate threats and transporting people for prostitution, court documents show.
Okamura, 44, targeted a father and his adult daughter, sending the woman threatening messages and posting her picture and address online, authorities said. One posting said the homeowner wanted drugs and hookers at the house in a quiet, middle-class neighborhood in a Salt Lake City suburb.
The Gilmore family was "tormented" during the year-plus that the "extreme cyberstalking" took place, US Attorney John Huber told news hounds on Tuesday.
Investigators had been focused on Okamura as the suspect since January when the Gilmores were granted a protective injunction from him in Utah. It took Sherlocks time to gather enough evidence to charge Okamura because of his use of encryption and apps that made him appear anonymous, Huber said.
"For all the good that technology offers us in our modern lifestyles, there is also a darker, seedier side to it," Huber said. "That’s what you have here."
Huber declined to disclose the relationship between the victims and Okamura, but said it was not random. He noted that most stalkers have had previous relationships with their victims and said, "those dynamics are present in this case."
A sealed indictment was issued on October 2, but Okamura wasn’t arrested until Friday as police struggled to find him because he doesn’t have a permanent address or job and authorities said he was "savvy" with technology used to mask his phone’s location.