New Mexico man sentenced after stalking, threatening Raleigh woman he met online

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - A New Mexico man was sentenced to five years in prison on Friday, after he defrauded Verizon Wireless and threatened and stalked a woman he met online from Raleigh, according to the FBI.

According to court documents, Robert Glauner, 60, met and talked to a woman he met from Raleigh online and they talked briefly in Sept. 2023 before she rejected his attempts at talking to her.

Court documents said that Glauner started to stalk the North Carolina woman and in order to find other ways to talk to her Glauner drafted fake search warrants for her phone records from Verizon Wireless.

In the fake search warrants Glauner said he was a member of law enforcement and included a North Carolina Superior Court Judge’s name as authorizing the fake search warrants, according to court documents.

The FBI said that Verizon accepted the fake search warrants and provided Glauner with the information. Glauner then contacted the woman’s family, friends and workplace to force her to speak to him.

Officials said after those attempts failed Glauner then drove from Albuquerque, New Mexico to Raleigh and sent the woman threatening messages.

Raleigh police was able to arrest Glauner when he arrived in Raleigh on Nov. 6, 2023. When police arrested Glauner they found a knife, rope and illegal narcotics.

“Glauner’s exploitation of technology and posing as the police to harass and intimidate the victim in this case is incredibly serious behavior,” Acting U.S. Attorney Daniel P. Bubar said today. “This case also demonstrates law enforcement’s commitment to vigorously pursue cyberstalking allegations, and I want to thank our partners at FBI and the Raleigh Police Department for their work, which brought Glauner to justice.”

“Online dating is scary enough without someone refusing to take no for an answer. Mr. Glauner took that to the extreme, pretending to be a law enforcement officer multiple times to track down the victim. When someone’s response to rejection is so extreme it escalates to stalking, the FBI will step in to stop the offender and hold them accountable every time,” said Robert M. DeWitt, the FBI Special Agent in Charge in North Carolina.

Glauner pleaded guilty to three counts of fraud in connection with obtaining confidential phone records; three counts of aggravated identity theft; transmitting a threat; and stalking.

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