A woman in Arizona was arrested and charged with stalking after allegedly sending tens of thousands of text messages to a man.
Jacqueline Ades allegedly sent a man 165,000 texts over several months, according to court documents cited by local station ABC 15.
Authorities said the messages sometimes reached as many as 500 texts per day during that period. The arrest followed reports that Ades also broke into the man’s home after meeting him online.
Ades, 31, and the man met through an online dating website and went on one date in 2017, ABC 15 reported.
The man’s name has not been publicly released. According to the report, the stalking and harassing behavior began after that single encounter. Police said the activity continued for months following the initial meeting.
The Paradise Valley Police Department reported receiving four calls involving Ades between July 2017 and this month.
Those calls concerned her appearing at either the man’s home or his place of business, police said. Officers documented repeated incidents that raised concerns about her behavior.
Each call involved the same alleged victim, according to police records.
Home intrusion and earlier arrest
The most extreme incident occurred in April, when the man contacted police while he was out of the country.
He told officers that surveillance video showed Ades entering his home without permission. Police said officers responded to the residence after receiving that call.
“When officers arrived, they found Ades in the residence taking a bath,” a police news release stated.
During that incident, a butcher knife was found in the front seat of Ades’s car, ABC 15 reported. She was taken into custody and charged with felony trespass to a residence, according to police.
Ades was later released following that arrest. Police said the case remained active after her release.
After being released, Ades allegedly sent threatening text messages to the man, police said. Those messages reportedly indicated that harm could come to him.
Some texts stated that she wanted to wear his body parts and bathe in his blood, ABC 15 reported. “Don’t ever try to leave me … I’ll kill you … I don’t wanna be a murderer,” she wrote in one message, according to the station.
Subsequent police response and charges
Police responded again on May 4 after receiving a call from a local business, authorities said. Officers were told that Ades was acting irrationally and claiming to be the owner’s wife.
The business is owned by the same man involved in the earlier incidents, police said. When confronted by officers, Ades told them she was married to the owner.
Ades was taken into custody on May 8, according to police. She faces felony charges of stalking and threatening and intimidating. She also faces a misdemeanor charge of harassment.
Police said she was booked into the local jail on a failure to appear warrant.
The warrant was issued after she missed a court date related to the April trespassing charge. Court documents show that Ades has no lawyer listed.
ABC 15 cited court paperwork stating that Ades allegedly admitted her statements were “crazy.”
Police said she told officers she did not intend to hurt the man.
Featured image credit: Paradise Valley Police Department
