Man Faces Charges for Using GPS to Spy on ex-Girlfriend

According to a report released by the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office (YCSO), several charges have been brought against a 34-year old man, Dustin Keith Brown by name, who illegally spied on her ex-girlfriend using a GPS device. The charges brought against him include burglary, theft, and criminal damage.

The YCSO deputies said that a call was received from a woman late at Friday night reporting about a burglary in Oak Creek. The woman who suspected her ex-boy was responsible for the burglary said that he has been constantly harassing her for the past several weeks even confronted recently at a Phoenix restaurant.

Based on the report of the woman, the deputies of YCSO revealed that he ordered for a search of the woman's apartment and they were astonished to find that someone applied pepper spray all over her mattress threw her bedding out on the street and stole a box of personal mementos from the apartment.

Being the first suspect, the officers looked for Brown at his home but he was not available for immediate questioning. Following another report from the victim that someone threw a rock through her apartment window and she sustained a cut from the broken glass, the deputies ordered for immediate search for Brown.

Brown was later found at a Cottonwood motel we officers also found the victim's stolen property in his truck including her missing wedding dress. Deputies also found a shotgun, owned by the victim's new husband. It was during the search that a GPS tracking device attached to the underside of the vehicle was found.

Brown used the device to locate his victim at any time and thereafter determined the next line of action. It was during the interrogation that it was discovered Brown had left three children whom he has responsibility over alone at Oak Creek.