A 46-year-old Kirkland man was sentenced to last week to eight months in King County Jail after pleading guilty to a felony stalking charge. His estranged wife made her story public so others could be aware of 21st Century stalking techniques.
After separating and filing for divorce, Sherri Peak, 36, saw Robert Peak follow her several times. Sherri Peak filed for a protection order.
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigator and a member of the Eastside Narcotics Task Force searched Sherri Peak’s car for a tracking device. Under the dashboard panel they found a cell phone, which was designed to turn on when the car was started, and a charger wired into the electrical system. The phone could report the location of the car to an Internet site and could also automatically accept incoming calls, allowing the caller to hear what was happening inside the car.
Police arrested Robert Peak and searched his house, where they found keys to new locks his wife had purchased for her house and e-mail printouts investigators think were obtained using a spyware program.
It’s important to know that such unimaginable, invasive monitoring exists and is just a technologically-savvy stalker away.
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