Aerial Stalking

From Rebecca Rosenberg's 10-9-23 FOX NEWS report entitled "Pilot, 65, Accused of Using Plane to Stalk Woman for 4 Years: 'It's a Nightmare'":

A pilot was charged Friday with threatening a young girl days after he was arrested for using a single-engine Cessna plane to stalk her mother for more than four years.

"It's a nightmare. He's terrorized my family, and we've been so afraid," Cassie Wilusz, 42, told Fox News Digital. "All these years he has been winning because nobody would do anything until now."

Micheal Arnold, 65, allegedly flew his plane over her Schuylerville. New York, home multiple times a week so low that the windows rattled and the roof shook – all of this as Wilusz's husband lay dying of colon cancer.

"I didn't know if he'd fly into our home. I didn't know what he was capable of," she said. "I thought, what if he shoots me."

Her complaints to the Federal Aviation Administration and New York State Police fell on deaf ears, she said.

Arnold has been arrested at least five times for the aerial torment but nothing has deterred him [...].

The trouble started in November 2019. Wilusz runs Revolution Café in the picturesque town of 1,300 about 200 miles north of New York City. Arnold, a retired Merchant Marine, used to come into the café several times a week.

As far as she was concerned, he was just a regular customer. One day he sent her an alarming email. "It was pictures of him tied up with naked women, like 20 photos, and he was telling me to open my mind," recalled Wilusz, who was married.

She sent him a respectful Facebook message taking exception to the graphic photos, then she blocked him.

The rejection appeared to have sparked an obsession. Arnold began flying over her home, taking photos of her backyard and car and posting them to a community Facebook page. When she headed to work, walked her dog or took her daughter to school, she'd find him sitting in his car at the end of her driveway or hiding nearby.

An anonymous package arrived in the mail with photos of her and her family with checkmarks next to their faces, but the package was sent from a post office without cameras and police said they couldn't identify the sender.

To read Rosenberg's entire article, click HERE.