While Xbox Live is obviously meant to game, chat and make friends, it’s rare you get such a good warning to be careful who you talk to. In Spokane, Washington, a 20-year-old American man was arrested on felony stalking charges after chatting to a 15-year-old girl on Xbox Live and eventually threatening to rape the girl and her sister.
Joshua Stetar of Saratoga Springs, New York met the girl by playing Halo and chatting with her online since 2006. Gamerush reports he sent packages and flowers to her home, all of which her parents returned. He also began text messaging her several hundred times on her cell phone, forcing the girl’s mother to change her daughter’s number.
Let’s not go into the freaky details how he found out where she lives, but after the crazy nut drove for 40 hours straight to get from New York to Spokane, then at around 9PM Friday last week Stetar sent a text message saying that he was driving by her house at the moment. The girl’s parents in fact saw his car drive by. A few minutes later, Stetar sent another text message stating, “Tell the cops that I’m gonna rape you and your sister.”
The girl’s father called police, and officers found the suspect staying at a nearby Econo Lodge motel. Stetar was booked into Spokane County Jail on one felony count of stalking. He was released on bond Saturday.