HONOLULU (KHON2) — A Colorado man has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for cyberstalking and obstruction of justice while living in Hawaii. The man, 54-year-old John B. Hart, of Louisville, pleaded guilty on April 12. Hart lived in Hawaii when he launched a cyberstalking campaign against his former girlfriend, Jane Doe […]
HONOLULU (KHON2) — A Colorado man has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for cyberstalking and obstruction of justice while living in Hawaii.
The man, 54-year-old John B. Hart, of Louisville, pleaded guilty on April 12.
Hart lived in Hawaii when he launched a cyberstalking campaign against his former girlfriend, Jane Doe 1; her former partner, John Doe 1; and her then-partner, John Doe 2 from May to August 2022.
Among the acts he admitted to, are:
“(1) sending communications to Jane Doe 1 criticizing her and encouraging her to kill
herself, and advising her that he had posed as Jane Doe 1 online and solicited strange men
to engage in “gang bang” and other sexual activities with her;
(2) sending communications to Jane Doe 1, her family members, and her associates
claiming that he had followed Jane Doe 1 and John Doe 2 when they traveled to
Washington state, and falsely asserting that John Doe 2 was a human trafficker who may
have kidnapped Jane Doe 1 while she was in Washington;
(3) sending communications to Jane Doe 1’s family members, John Doe 2, and their
associates that contained express or implied threats to kill, kidnap, rape, and otherwise
injure Jane Doe 1;
(4) creating online dating profiles in Jane Doe 1’s name, and soliciting men to date and/or
engage in casual sexual encounters with her, and sending messages causing multiple men to
appear at Jane Doe 1’s workplace for dates and/or sex;
(5) sending communications to John Doe 2 criticizing Jane Doe 1 and encouraging,
directing, and threatening John Doe 2 to terminate his relationship with her;
(6) sending communications to John Doe 2 claiming to have sexual photos and videos of
Jane Doe 1 and threatening to post them online and distribute them to her friends and
family;
(7) purchasing and shipping sex toys to one or more residences of John Doe 2’s family
members, using Jane Doe 1’s name and credit card without authorization in the purchase
order, and sending taunting communications to John Doe 2 about the purchases; and
(8) spray-painting Jane Doe 1’s vehicle and placing metal spikes on the ground near her
tires, while her vehicle was parked outside of her place of employment/training.”
“John Hart engaged in a relentless cybercampaign to harass and terrorize his ex-girlfriend
and others in her life, masking his own identity and attempting to frame an innocent man in the
process,” said United States Attorney Clare E. Connors, whose office prosecuted the case.
Hart was arrested in Colorado in April 2023.
“While no sentence can ever make up for the devastating impact John Hart’s actions had
on the victims in this case, we hope that this provides a sense of relief to those he affected,” said
FBI Honolulu Special Agent in Charge Steven Merrill, whose office investigated the case.