00:00Please, this one time, let me go because I'm a student.
00:05What starts as a harmless attempt to reconnect spirals into a chilling invasion of privacy.
00:10An Indian student, after months of harassing messages and failed attempts to reach out,
00:15crosses a dangerous line, secretly attaching a GPS tracker to a woman's car to monitor her every move.
00:21He reaches out to me again, he says I'm sorry for everything, and we talk as friends and everything's okay.
00:27All of a sudden today, I'm getting emails like, where are you? Who are you with? What are you doing?
00:31He was looking for me for two days, and calling different places, trying to find out where I was.
00:36He's looking in parking lots for my car, places where he thinks I'd be.
00:40And he finds my car, and I guess today is when he put a GPS tracker on my car.
00:44He claims he put a GPS on.
00:46That's what he told me, he said it's either, he's on the left side tires.
00:49I don't know which tire it's under, but he said it's like a magnetic device that's stuck under my car.
00:53He said he put it in the wheel well?
00:55I don't know.
00:56I'm just kind of...
00:57Yes, please.
00:58If you can take it off, I would really appreciate that.
01:00Hey, how are you?
01:01Good, how are you?
01:02Good.
01:03My name's Officer Winner with the Johnston Police Department.
01:04I don't know, what's going on today?
01:06Okay, so, that's the first time I finished her.
01:09I just thought she might be with someone, so I thought to see where she was.
01:14That's all I did.
01:15I didn't do anything else.
01:16I didn't, I never had any criminal history.
01:19Okay.
01:20I just wanted to see where she was, and I said I would never contact you again.
01:24I destroyed the device.
01:25Please, this one time, let me go, because I am a student.
01:30So, this is the one time.
01:32So, I thought she might be with someone, so I just wanted to see who it was.
01:37Okay.
01:38So, that's why I put the tracking device, other than that I didn't do anything else.
01:41So, you actually put a tracking device on her car?
01:43Yes.
01:44Okay.
01:45The metal?
01:46Yeah, I will destroy it, and I will go, and I won't do anything.
01:48Like two days back, she said she went to the hotel.
01:50So, I thought she went with somebody.
01:51So, that's, I had a tracking device a couple of days last week on.
01:54So, I just used it to track it and see where she was.
01:57I didn't do anything prime.
01:58All right.
01:59At this time, you're under arrest for unlawful surveillance, okay?
02:05What he initially believed to be a straightforward solution ultimately resulted in a criminal offense,
02:10prompting a police investigation and his subsequent arrest.
02:13He spent a week in custody before being released on an $11,000 surety.
