Man charged with stalking Boynton woman
BOYNTON BEACH — A Broward County man is facing charges of stalking a Boynton Beach woman, a pattern of harassment she said began nine years ago when they were teenagers, city police said.
Estuardo Sevilla, 23, of Plantation, was arrested Wednesday after the woman reported to Boynton Beach police a threat he posted on Facebook and Instagram after she rebuffed his most recent attempt to reach out to her.
The woman said she and Sevilla have never formally met or spoken.
Sevilla remained in the Palm Beach County Jail on Tuesday afternoon. A judge Friday set his bail at $57,500.
The woman told police the harassment began in 2009 when the two were neighbors in Sunrise, according to the report. She said she saw him standing outside her window to watch her twice when she was 13. The second time, her family contacted police but no arrests were made, according to Boynton Beach police.
One or two years later, she started getting telephone calls from Sevilla and changed her phone number, according to the report.
Each year Sevilla messaged the woman from a different Facebook account professing his love, and she blocked each account without responding, according to the report.
On July 13, the woman received messages from an account Sevilla controlled that had added all of her Facebook friends, according to the report.
The woman posted on her Facebook page and told her friends not to add Sevilla. In response, Sevilla messaged her and said he suggested her family “calm down before I use force,” according to the report.
He then messaged her graphic photos, including one of someone holding a dead woman’s head and others of apparently dead people and an assault rifle, according to police.
Additionally, he sent the threat to the woman’s Instagram page and her brother’s Facebook account, according to the report.
Police said Sevilla told them he was upset with the woman and sent her the threat and photos to scare her.