PORTLAND, Maine — A Florida man who threatened to send nude photos of a Maine woman and information about her criminal history to people at her workplace was sentenced Thursday to 15 month in prison.
Charles Mack, 51, of Clearwater, Florida, pleaded guilty to interstate stalking in March, and he was sentenced Thursday by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen in U.S. District Court to 15 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. He has been held without bail since his arrest in May 2015.
“He’ll get credit for time served,” Assistant U.S. Attorney James W. Chapman, Jr. said Friday.
Mack and the victim were a couple in 1989 and involved in criminal activity together that included check fraud and theft, according to the prosecution’s version of events to which Mack pleaded guilty. Both were convicted of federal crimes in 1990, and the couple split up.
The victim did not hear from Mack again until early 2014, when he left a message on her cellphone asking her to call him, the court document said. They resumed communication for a time, but after she refused to visit Florida, Mack threatened to send the nude photos and her criminal history to her work.
“Between January 2014 and May 2015, Mack sent numerous harassing emails and text messages” to the woman, who now lives in Falmouth, “despite her repeated requests that he stop the communications,” according to a news release from United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II.
In June 2014, Mack began sending threatening text and email messages and leaving threatening voice messages for her, according to the prosecution’s version of events.
Despite the victim’s request that he stop calling and emailing her, Mack continued to do so, even after FBI agents visited his home and told him to stop.
“Mack’s conduct caused the victim and her family substantial emotional distress,” the U.S. attorney’s office said in the news release.
Mack faced up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. Since his arrest, he has been held at Stafford County Jail in Dover, New Hampshire. The New Hampshire facility is one of several jails the U.S. Marshals Service in Maine uses to board prisoners because there is no federal detention facility in Maine.