A federal judge in Ohio has sentenced Logan Stanford, 28, of Shelby, to 78 months in prison, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Ohio announced. The sentence was handed down by U.S. District Judge Donald C. Nugent.
Stanford had pleaded guilty in June to three counts of cyberstalking and three counts of making threatening interstate communications, prosecutors said. Along with the prison term, he received three years of supervised release. During that period he cannot use the internet.
An indictment alleged Stanford carried out a three-year campaign of harassment, stalking and intimidation against three women. Some of the women had never met him face to face, according to the account. He reportedly used false names to reach them on various social media sites. When they blocked his accounts, he allegedly kept creating new profiles. The behavior, prosecutors said, included explicit threats to kill the victims.
The FBI's Mansfield Resident Agency investigated. First Assistant U.S. Attorney Michelle M. Baeppler prosecuted for the Northern District of Ohio.