He has faced charges of assault, resisting arrest, witness tampering and theft, the judge noted. Greig has a lengthy criminal background, the judge said. The judge denied the request and ordered him to remain jailed until his latest case is resolved. And what does he do, weeks after getting out he’s looking her up,” Sinclair said.Ĭhristine Farolan, an attorney for Greig, argued for his release from custody Monday, telling the judge he never threatened the woman or confronted her in person. “He’s supposed to leave this woman alone for the rest of her life. He got out early in January due to the COVID-19 pandemic – after serving 20 months – and by February was back to searching the woman’s Facebook page, Sinclair said.
Greig started serving a four-year sentence in May 2019 for stalking and cyber-harassment. Police took him into custody again in December 2017 and October 2018, when the woman reported more than 50 anonymous and “alarming phone calls and multiple text messages” from an unknown caller. He was released after six months in June 2017. “To this day, I have no idea why he sought me out,” the woman said in a 2017 letter to the court.Ī judge sentenced Greig to an 18-month prison term in January 2017 on stalking charges. Sheriff's race: Amid indictment and scathing report, Bergen GOP sheriff candidate presses on The woman, who is in her 50s and has been married for 30 years, later told police she had never seen or talked to him before.īergen court: Hackensack man who stabbed wife over suspected affair gets 14 years in prison
They had no prior relationship, but Greig stalked her for six months after that, sending dozens of Facebook messages and pictures. The alleged harassment fit a pattern of obsessive behavior that started in 2016, when Greig spotted the woman in a store. Prosecutors said he used multiple VPNs – or virtual private networks – to cover his tracks, and downloaded cellphone apps that create fake numbers. Greig lived in Hawthorne when police arrested him the first time, but was allegedly staying at a Clifton hotel when he made the latest round of calls. At one point, the woman had 20 calls in a two-hour period, along with texts of pornographic videos, pictures from her Facebook page and messages that he “wanted to bang her,” Sinclair said. Prosecutors said Greig, 39, called the woman at least 100 times between August and early October from three different numbers she didn’t recognize. One in six women nationally, and one in 17 men, have been stalked at some point in their lives, according to a CDC survey on sexual violence. “Technology has made communicating with others easier than ever, but those advances have also created more options and choices to threaten and harass victims,” the site states. Stalking tactics in the modern age, according to the CDC website, have evolved to include unwanted phone calls, texts and social media messages.
Center for Disease Control lists stalking as a public health problem that affects millions of women and men nationwide. Greig does not get the message,” Judge James Sattely said when presented with pages of Greig’s phone records. A Bergen County judge denied his release from custody Monday, declaring him a potential danger to the public and victim.
The barrage of phone calls led to Greig’s arrest last week, his fourth since 2016 on stalking and cyber-harassment charges. “And yet here we are again, after this woman has had to go through this.” “He has a permanent restraining order stating that he can never contact her again,” Brian Sinclair, an assistant prosecutor in Bergen County, said at a court hearing Monday. He persisted, according to authorities, despite a restraining order, jail time and multiple arrests for stalking the same woman. What followed were dozens of phone calls and text messages that included sexual texts and pornographic images, made from anonymous numbers that allegedly traced back to Greig. Watch Video: What happens when someone is arrested and charged with a crime?įresh off a prison stint for stalking a married mother, Christopher Greig searched her Facebook page for new pictures, prosecutors said.
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