A North Carolina woman has filed a lawsuit against Verizon Wireless, claiming that the phone company disclosed her cellphone number and home address to an individual named Robert Glauner.
She accuses Glauner of stalking her and recounts an incident where he arrived at her home with a razor blade and rope.
In a federal court in North Carolina, a civil complaint was filed by the plaintiff, identified as “M.D.,” who claimed to have met Glauner online in August 2023. She provided him with a false identity instead of her actual name. According to court records, the two individuals connected on xhamster.com, an adult video website, and she provided Glauner with her cellphone number.
They had a conversation for a short time, according to her, but when she started feeling uneasy with Glauner, she decided to stop talking to him.
M.D. was unable to prevent him from reaching out to her, despite blocking him on all of her devices, as stated in the complaint.
According to her, Glauner allegedly used multiple numbers to contact her. When she reported the harassment to the police, they advised her to change her number, which she did. According to her attorney, Amanda Dure, there was a brief period of tranquility for her client, starting from that moment.
Based on the civil complaint, Glauner, a resident of New Mexico, traveled to North Carolina intending to harass her. According to her, after blocking Glauner, he managed to find her by pretending to be a detective from a local police department when he reached out to Verizon’s Security Assistance Team.
According to M.D., an individual who identified himself as Detective “Steven Cooper” from the Cary Police Department’s homicide division, allegedly created a counterfeit search warrant for Verizon and urgently requested access to her phone data.
Supposedly, he informed the phone company that M.D. was “a female individual who was observed at the location of the murder.”
According to M.D., this was completely fabricated.
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In addition to creating the counterfeit warrant and impersonating a detective, Glauner was accused by M.D. of fraudulently signing it as Judge Gale Adams from Wake County.
“In reality, Judge Gale M. Adams is a Superior Court Judge in Cumberland County, North Carolina. On October 18, 2023, Judge Adams was shown the document, and indicated that the signature displayed was not hers and she did not sign it,” the civil complaint states.
The woman alleges that Verizon provided Glauner with her personal information, including her phone number, phone records, home address, and phone logs, which contained the contact information of her family members. All of this occurred within nine days of Verizon reportedly receiving the initial false warrant and request.
The individual is alleged to have requested access to various forms of communication and information, including calls, text messages, GPS coordinates, and received pictures.
In order to obtain those records, Glauner had to increase his efforts: Glauner allegedly informed the phone company that she was “wanted for homicide and intended to leave the U.S. jurisdiction for Puerto Rico,” according to an M.D.
The emails were sent to Verizon from an unofficial personal Proton Mail account that Glauner had set up, according to M.D.
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Afterwards, there were additional days filled with relentless harassment through phone calls and text messages. To make matters worse, the woman’s own mother started receiving threatening calls from the individual in New Mexico.
According to reports, Glauner warned M.D. that their situation would not improve if they continued to avoid him. and began sending explicit messages to her friends and family, including disturbing promises to intrude into her bedroom and commit acts of violence.
According to the woman’s attorney, Glauner reportedly claimed that M.D. desired to be under his ownership. Shortly after, he allegedly contacted the police and requested a welfare check on her at her residence.
Glauner was traveling from New Mexico to North Carolina when he allegedly sent disturbing messages to someone, expressing intentions to acquire a weapon and visit their residence.
Upon arriving in Raleigh, M.D. claims that Glauner made threats to harm her.
After this incident, the M.D. decided to contact the police, who agreed to monitor her property. Upon Glauner’s arrival, he discreetly parked his car a block away and proceeded to approach M.D.’s house by concealing himself in a neighbor’s yard, specifically in a dimly lit area, according to the complaint.
Authorities discovered a razor blade in his possession, as reported by M.D. Additionally, upon searching his vehicle, they uncovered “two recently acquired bundles of rope, a glass meth pipe, and eight grams of methamphetamine.”
M.D. has filed a lawsuit against Verizon in civil court, alleging violations of the Stored Communication Act, intentional reckless infliction of emotional distress, and negligence. She is requesting a minimum of $75,000 in compensation and a trial by jury.
In the civil complaint, Glauner was also mentioned as being involved in the alleged assault.
