Posted on 10/11/2023 3:57:46 PM PDT by Libloather
A retired merchant marine suspected of using his small plane to stalk a woman for more than four years in Upstate New York denied knowing the victim Tuesday as he was arrested for the third time in a single week for allegedly tormenting her.
"I don’t know her, she’s crazy," Michael Arnold, 65, said of 42-year-old Cassie Wilusz on his way into Saratoga Town Court. He said he'd only eaten at her restaurant once and didn't return after coming down with food poisoning.
But Wilusz, who owns Revolution Cafe in the small village of Schuylerville, shared videos that allegedly show him circling her home in his plane and following her in his car.
Arnold was arraigned Tuesday on nine counts of criminal contempt that stem from an arrest on Friday for using a Facebook account with a fake name to allegedly harass her and threaten her daughter in violation of an order of protection.
As he left court, deputies slapped him in handcuffs again on a fresh stalking charge, according to the Saratoga County Sheriff's Office.
"I feel relieved that he's in custody at the moment," Wilusz told Fox News Digital in an interview at her cafe on Tuesday. "He hopefully realizes the time has come, and he has to actually answer to the charges."
Minutes later, Arnold was released on bail.
He was arrested on Oct. 3 at an airport in Vermont for repeatedly circling Wilusz's home in his single-engine Cessna in violation of an order of protection that banned him from flying, according to a release from the Bennington Police Department.
The FBI, which is now involved in the investigation, tipped off the local police. He was released on $5,000 bail.
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Or flying.
Weirdo
Sounds like she is the wierdo
I need to see a picture of her to judge if this is plausible or not.
“He was arrested on Oct. 3 at an airport in Vermont for repeatedly circling Wilusz’s home in his single-engine Cessna in violation of an order of protection that banned him from flying, according to a release from the Bennington Police Department.”
Sounds like the evidence is on her side, outlandish as it is.
“Sounds like she is the wierdo”
You have a weird sense of reality!
Love is blind. Sometimes it’s only myopic. I’m sure she looks great from 1,000 feet up.
I just skimmed the article. Didn’t see he circled her house. So I actually just have poor reading comprehension on this phone
I just skimmed the article. Didn’t see he circled her house. So I actually just have poor reading comprehension on this phone
“I just skimmed the article. Didn’t see he circled her house. So I actually just have poor reading comprehension on this phone”
Sent her unwanted nude photos of himself with other women
Harassed her with fake Facebook account
For 4 1/2 years and 10 complaints against him.
Love? Or revenge for food poisoning? Hard to believe he was banned from flying - or perhaps the reporter meant flying over her house.
For some reason our neighborhood will attract a small plane once in awhile that does circles around the area.
The Facebook account thing is interesting though, if proven to be him.
One of them is weird though. Along with the laws. As soon as he was released they arrested him on another charge?
Nothing they are doing is working.
Throw his butt in jail for a while.
Altitude becomes her.
At very least, she clipped his wings for a while.
If even most of it is true, this guy is as mad as a hatter.
Apparently, he invited her to a bondage session out of the blue. She said ‘No’. Ever since then, he can’t stay away from her. I guess he could not handle being rejected.
After the last couple of years, observing the behavior of ‘average’ people, I’m not so quick to call something
“Too Crazy!” to ever happen.
They never met (she worked the day shift and he worked the night) -
https://youtu.be/ruatetg8LA8?si=Zcg3i1xnZufMPQXB
I would think it would be hard to be inconspicuous in a plane. Did he consider dressing up as a bush instead?
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