The FBI has arrested a California man for making a whole lot of obscene and threatening phone calls to girls in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and a number of other different states.
Justin Glauthier, 30, was arrested by FBI brokers at his residence in Anaheim on Wednesday, authorities stated. He’s charged with cyberstalking, insterstate threats to injure and making interstate obscene and harassing calls.
Prosecutors allege that between 2022 and 2025, Glauthier repeatedly known as and harassed girls whose identify, {photograph} and different private data, together with particulars related to their employment, he discovered on-line.
Federal investigators say a minimum of 9 girls have been recognized as having obtained harassing and in some circumstances even threatening calls from Glauthier. They allege that in dozens of calls, he made sexually express feedback and threatened his victims in the event that they refused to remain on the cellphone or cooperate with him.
In some situations, he claimed to know the place his victims lived and labored and threatened to go to them unannounced at their houses or workplaces.
In accordance with a court docket affidavit, one Rhode Island sufferer advised an FBI investigator she started receiving cellphone calls from Glauthier in November of 2022 and reported it to Lincoln police in August of 2024. She stated she would sometimes communicate to him in an effort to appease him, hoping he would ultimately cease calling her. Every time she would block a quantity he used, she stated he would name her from a unique quantity.
In July of 2024, that sufferer stated she yelled at Glauthier for harassing her and stated she would name police. She stated Glauthier advised her they would not have the ability to discover him and “in the event that they do, he’ll take care of it when the time comes.”
The sufferer stated the calls started to develop into extra express from that time ahead, with Glauthier telling her he beloved her and could not cease fantasizing about her. He advised the sufferer he had images of her and the cellphone calls weren’t sufficient anymore. On in the future particularly, the sufferer stated she obtained over 15 calls from Glauthier.
Phone data confirmed this sufferer obtained 49 calls from Glauthier between September 2023 and October 2024 and one other 118 calls from his quantity between November 2024 and January 2025.
A second Rhode Island sufferer interviewed in November of 2024 advised the FBI that she had obtained quite a few cellphone calls from a masked quantity. Throughout one name, he advised the sufferer “she is gorgeous and that he noticed her photos on-line.” He additionally advised her at one level that he was a professor at Brown College and was going to her residence to fulfill her.
This sufferer obtained a minimum of two dozen calls from Glauthier, investigators stated.
A 3rd sufferer, a Massachusetts resident who works in Rhode Island, stated she started receiving harassing cellphone calls from an unidentified male caller in late 2020. The caller stated he was trying to transfer from California to her location.
Phone data present that from Might 2023 to October 2024, Glauthier known as this sufferer 133 instances on her cellphone and known as her at work 21 instances. Along with graphic sexual feedback, Glauthier additionally advised the sufferer he had seen her kids, referencing photographs she had posted on social media.
One other Massachusetts sufferer interviewed by the FBI in December of 2024 advised investigators the conversations rapidly turned “nasty” and sexual. At one level, Glauthier advised her he was “in love along with her and needed to journey” to her location “to be along with her and marry her.” She stated Glauthier known as her with no caller ID a number of instances a day, together with late at night time and early within the morning.
That sufferer obtained 50 calls from Glauthier between March 2023 and October 2024, and one other 28 calls between November 2024 and January 2025.
FBI investigators additionally interviewed victims and police from Georgia, California and Wisconsin.
Glauthier was anticipated to make an preliminary court docket look earlier than a U.S. Justice of the Peace decide in California on Thursday.
The case is being prosecuted by the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace in Rhode Island, with help from the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace in central California.
