A jury found an Oregon man guilty of cyberstalking and
making threats related to numerous threats he made to his former co-workers and
law enforcement officials.
Michael A. Hagar, 48, is scheduled to be sentenced later
this year. A jury found him guilty of one count of cyberstalking and two counts
of interstate threatening communication after a weeklong trial.
Hagar was employed at a Goodyear store in Salem, Oregon,
from 2011 through 2013. He was employed by Eaton in Portland, Oregon, from 2014
through 2015. He was involuntarily terminated from both positions, according to
court documents and trial testimony.
Hager sent numerous threatening e-mails to at least seven
former co-workers at Eaton and Goodyear in 2015 and 2016, as well as threatening
emails to law enforcement officials in Oregon. The e-mails he sent traveled
through Eaton and Goodyear data centers in Northeast Ohio, according to court
documents and trial testimony.
In 2016, Hagar was personally served with a temporary
stalking protective order ordering him to stop any contact with an Eaton
employee identified as R.G. He was also arrested for trespassing on Goodyear
property in Oregon, according to court documents and trial testimony.
On May 30, 2016, he sent an email to R.G. and Oregon law
enforcement officials with the subject line: “I AM GOING TO RUIN EVERYONE OF
YOU(R) LIVES,” according to court documents and trial testimony.
This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys
Daniel J. Riedl and Om Kakani following an investigation by the FBI.
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