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Police Officer Charged with Cyberstalking

An AP newswire article, via The Globe and Mail, reports that:

A Long Island police officer has been charged with hacking into the e-mail account of a woman he met through an on-line dating service and posing as her in messages sent to himself and to other men.

Michael Valentine, 28, of Lake Grove, was arraigned Monday on a 197-count indictment that included charges of stalking, computer trespassing, official misconduct and tampering with evidence. He pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Valentine met the woman on Match.com in November and dated her for about six weeks before she broke up with him, Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota said.

The officer went into the woman's e-mail account and sent himself a message threatening that her friends would "come out of the bushes with a baseball bat and beat your brains in," prosecutors said.

posted by Fergie @ 4/13/2006 07:38:00 AM