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According to Wired and KHQ news, a 20-year-old man was recently arrested for stalking and threatening a 15-year old girl he met playing Halo online. Joshua Stetar (the perpetrator) had apparently driven cross country from to Spokane, Washington to see the girl he met on Xbox live. His other obscenely creepy behaviors included driving by her house, leaving thousands of text messages on her phone (which he found online by googling her name and address), sending unwanted gifts to her house, and threatening to rape her and her sister.

Thankfully, the girl’s parents contacted the police, who found him at an econo lodge in Spokane before he could do any further damage. He’s facing a felony stalking charge.

Ouch - let this be a reminder to never give out personal information online. Maybe Nintendo’s friend-code system isn’t so bad after all.

Read [KHQ] Via [Wired]