Results tagged “stalking”

A woman in Cobble Hill called the cops last week when she saw a man trying to open the window of her Congress Street home. When police arrived and questioned the 32-year-old man sitting outside her home with a camera, he told them he was an architect. But when cops asked to see his "blueprints," they instead found snapshots of the woman in her underwear. The man was arrested for unlawful surveillance, criminal trespassing, and stalking.

A Brooklyn supermarket has one less employee today and Tyra Banks one less stalker. Brady Green, the man who moved across country and began working at a local store so that he could be closer to the talk show host he adored, was found guilty of stalking and harassment today in Manhattan Criminal Court. Judge James Burke said that Green's excused for chasing down Tyra was "knowingly and inherently invalid and the behavior was hounding."

Tyra Banks took the stand today in the trial of the man accused of stalking her. Brady Green, 39, was arrested for stalking and harassment after he showed up to see Banks last March at the Chelsea studios where she tapes her talk show. Staffers of the show had panicked when Green arrived, recognizing his name from flowers he had sent and phone calls he had made—including one where he threatened a producer. In court today, the model-turned-entrepreneur said, "I know I have fans, but I've never in my entire career had my staff react in this way."

Yesterday, prosecutors dropped charges against Aleksander Vacaj, who was accused of hiring two men to slash his ex-girlfriend's face last year in Chinatown. The ex-girlfriend, Artende Gjeli, had been working at 123 Baxter Street when two men grabbed and slashed her. An off-duty NYPD detective had been on the scene and shot the attackers, killing one (pictured, the cut on the head that the detective received during the altercation). According to the Post, the prosecutors' suffered when Gjeli apparently "changed her story about why her ex-boyfriend had been harassing her" and then Vacaj's lawyer "announced he would grill the victim on a host of alleged crimes, including drug smuggling, immigration fraud, shoplifting and perjury." The Daily News adds that Vacaj's lawyer also accused Gjeli of stalking Vacaj, "She was calling my client more than my client was calling her." Vacaj, who served two months in prison, said, "I never had anything to do with anything, and justice was done."

Last summer Lorne Michaels's "stalker," 31-year-old Evans Pidhajecky, went to court for allegedly "mailing, calling or visiting Michaels at least six times" in 2007. Well how else was he going to accuse the SNL producer of stealing ideas from his brain telepathically? Oh right, telepathically! Today reports are coming in that the case has now "been adjourned for six months. The judge says it will be dismissed and sealed if he stays out of trouble." Criminal Court Judge Robert Mandelbaum also "ordered Pidhajecky to undergo therapy twice a week for six months," and of course leave Lorne alone. This also means that Lorne is still to blame for his own bad ideas.

Turns out Lorne Michaels has a stalker (no, not Jimmy Fallon), and he was just in court. Reportedly a Manhattan Criminal Court judge "has upheld charges against a Long Island man accused of stalking" the Saturday Night Live producer. The 31-year-old, Evans Pidhajecky, had claimed Michaels stole his ideas after overhearing his conversations and hearing him sing (sounds like a slight case of Truman Show Delusion).

Earlier this week, a judge decided that a man found guilty of stalking actress Uma Thurman did not deserve jail time. Instead, Jack Jordan was sentenced to psychiatric counseling and three years probation in Maryland. However, Jordan was spotted in Lower Manhattan yesterday.

For her testimony against stalker Jack Jordan yesterday, The NY Times described Uma's appearance as being "pared-down," as she donned "a gray shawl thrown over black slacks and a black sweater. Her golden hair was carelessly knotted in back, with long strands hanging down both sides of her face. She wore no makeup and looked thin and hollow-eyed."

Following her parents testimony, Uma Thurman herself showed up at court today to face her stalker. The NY Post reports back that Thurman read excerpts from stalker Jack Jordan's notes to her, as "she pulled a shawl over her shoulders and hunched over as though overcome with a chill." She said Jordan's behavior was distressing, "It wasn't just a red herring or a fluke or a bad day. The fact that he had my parents home number and had arrived at the set and come back when he was told to leave started to paint a picture much worse than some isolated moment."

Yesterday, on the actress's 38th birthday, Uma Thurman's parents headed to court to testify in front of a Manhattan jury about their daughter's stalker. Jack Jordan, an unemployed pool cleaner, was called "delusional" by Robert Thurman (pictured), who Jordan began contacting in 2004; the email that set of the alarms was one received in February 2005, stating, “Today the center of my forehead is ticking now and then. I feel in love with your daughter Uma.”

The New York Press is getting their Gawker Stalker on with their latest cover story about stalking Claire Danes...and how you, yes you, can also follow her home! All you need is the internet, a lot of free time and an obsession in which to fuel your fanboy/girl fire. The payoff? Well, for the author of the article, Becca Tucker, it was a cover story complete with creepy photo, headline and font. Just close your...