For nearly 40 days, a Virginia Beach woman kept getting messages from a man she didn’t know, according to federal officials.
They were lewd and threatening, with the man saying things like the situation would not “end well” for her.
“I know where you live in Virginia,” he said in one expletive-laden voice message, court documents said.
Brock Brian Beeman, 27, of New York, was indicted July 23 on charges he cyberstalked the woman, a Navy spouse identified in court documents only as A.M. He is charged with six counts, including making interstate threats.
Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Heck declined to comment on the case. Beeman’s public defender did not return a phone call.
According to the indictment, it all began on May 11 when the woman received a call from a blocked number. Prosecutors said Beeman — who has a record of making online threats — left a voicemail making reference to sexual interactions between them that never occurred. Subsequent voicemails “berated (her) for not answering her cell phone,” prosecutors wrote.
“I told you I will drive to (Virginia Beach) and teach a lesson, I know you live there,” he said in a message later that evening, according to the documents. “I’m not the one to mess with, I will find you, you will not like me.”
The woman received nearly four dozen calls from blocked numbers that day. Soon after, according to prosecutors, she downloaded a phone app called Trapcall that can unmask blocked calls.
Over the following days, as she continued to receive threatening and sexual messages, the app revealed the phone numbers he was using.
The Naval Criminal Investigative Service got involved. The woman told investigators “she was fearful of the caller as a result of the phone calls based on the belief that the callers(sic) knows where she lives and the threats he made to her and her children,” NCIS special agent Nichole Harris wrote in an affidavit.
The man continued to leave the messages through June, including ones threatening violent action to cut the throats of her and her family. In the meantime, investigators tracked him down and learned of his record.
In 2016, Beeman was sentenced to 17 months for sending threats via texts and Facebook to kill a man, according to court records. He has a “well-documented personality disorder and mental health issues,” prosecutors wrote in court documents filed with that case while arguing for a longer sentence.
“The defendant’s extensive criminal history is indeed a reflection of his refusal to address his mental health situation, which appears not to require medication but intensive therapy,” they wrote.
One of his conditions was described by mental health professionals as “oppositional defiant disorder,” Beeman’s attorney wrote in court documents. It affects him “in such a way as to make him compulsively defy authority and have a defiant attitude in his personal relationships.”
Beeman is now in custody in New York. He will eventually be extradited for prosecution in Hampton Roads, a Department of Justice spokesman confirmed.
