A New York man was arrested Tuesday on charges he has been cyberstalking a Maryland woman for months, making threats that included soliciting people online to rape, kill and decapitate her in exchange for Bitcoin, federal authorities said.
Desmond Babloo Singh, 19, also “swatted” the woman, summoning police to her family’s Baltimore County home by emailing a bogus bomb threat, a U. S. Department of Homeland Security special agent said in a court filing.
The woman, who isn’t named in the document, lives with her family in Maryland when she isn’t attending an unidentified college in New York. She was a friend of Singh’s older sister in middle school for one year before his family moved to Texas and has never met Singh in person, the agent said.
Since April, Singh allegedly has used more than 100 different social media, electronic communication and phone accounts to send harassing and unsolicited messages to the woman.
“These messages include express and implied threats of death and bodily injury, sexualized violence, and racial slurs,” the agent wrote.