Creep Stalks Family, Sends Hundreds Of People Including Prostitutes To Their Home

A Hawaii man has been accused of cyberstalking a Utah woman and her family by sending unwanted repairmen, food deliveries, prostitutes and other visitors to their home.

Loren Okamura, 44, was arrested Friday by the police from Honolulu for cyberstalking and terrorizing the Gilmore family in Utah for over a year. He is being held in the custody of the United States Marshals Service without bail. Okamura is charged with two counts of cyberstalking, two counts of transporting an individual to engage in prostitution and a count of interstate threats, CNN reported citing court documents.

Walt Gilmore, the father of the adult woman, estimates that more than 500 unwanted visitors came to their home at the stalker’s behest since August 2018.

The visits started harmlessly with food deliveries in the beginning. Later the electricians, plumbers, and locksmiths came. Then the barrage of visitors started getting scary, as some came looking for drugs, while others were prostitutes.

At one instance Gilmore spotted people taking pictures of his house, looking inside his windows late at night, and sitting in cars parked outside, Hawaii News Now reported.

He believes these people were hired by Okamura online to spy on them.

"It's really extreme stalking," U.S. Attorney John Huber said at a news conference. "I'll tell you what made this an important case for Utah is that a family ... was tormented with hundreds of incidents and a course of conduct that really changed their life and even their own neighborhood -- so the victimization expanded beyond a person or home to an entire neighborhood. We' re not going to let that stand."

Court documents state that Okamura threatened the woman over emails telling her to “sleep with one eye open" and keep looking over her shoulder. He also allegedly told her to kill herself as she would be doing her family a huge favor.

The family obtained a cease-and-desist order against Okamura, but he continued stalking them.

The stalking became so problematic for the family that they installed a bright yellow sign in front of their house and put new locks on their doors.

"If you have been asked to provide any services at this address such as Car Tow, Home Repair, Locksmith, Plumbing, Food Deliveries or anything else, please call the North Salt Lake Police," the yellow sign read, 'they were all victims of a scam.'

At one point the Gilberts even parked a North Salt Lake police car in their driveway to intimidate the visitors.

As the cyberstalking continued, Sgt. Jeffrey Plank with the Utah Department of Public Safety's cybercrime unit, along with agents from the FBI's Honolulu office started working on tracking down Okamura. As the suspect had no permanent address, the hunt took some time. However, the police eventually tracked him down and arrested him at a supermarket in Honolulu without incident.

Gilbert was relieved to know their harasser was behind the bars. He said he knew Okamura’s motives, but did not make it public ahead of the case. According to Gilbert, several other families in his neighborhood too were victims of Okamura’s elaborate cyberstalking.