'He is terrorizing us': Stalker-pilot accused of violating restraining order in prop plane
Michael Arnold was arrested for allegedly violating a restraining order and continuing to stalk and harass a woman in his single-engine propeller airplane.
lawandcrime.com
A 65-year-old man from New Hampshire has been arrested for allegedly using his small propeller airplane to stalk a woman in New York, repeatedly flying the aircraft over her home.
Michael Arnold was taken into custody on Tuesday and charged with one count each of aggravated stalking, impeding, providing false information to a police officer, and resisting arrest for “terrorizing Cassie Wilusz,” authorities said.
Arnold was charged in Bennington County, Vermont, where authorities say he would fly his single-engine Cessna 180 out of to allegedly stalk the victim’s New York home.
“He is terrorizing us,” Wilusz reportedly told the paper. “He flies so close to the house that it feels like he’s going to go through it. It’s a nightmare that just doesn’t stop.”
Such fly-bys would often occur several times a week as early as 7 a.m., waking up Wilusz and her neighbors and causing their doors and windows to rattle. At least once, Wilusz reportedly claimed that Arnold threw tomatoes at her house from the plane.
