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Published for NC Criminal Law on August 23, 2024.

Verizon Wireless is facing a lawsuit after a man claiming to be a detective with the Cary Police Department was arrested for stalking. Last year, Robert Glauner, who is a resident of New Mexico, sent Verizon Wireless a fake search warrant demanding phone records from a Cary woman. He falsely claimed that the woman was a homicide suspect, but it was later revealed that she was someone he was stalking after connecting with her online. According to this News and Observer article, Glauner met the woman online in August 2023. The woman gave him her phone number and an alias, but the relationship eventually led to her blocking his number. In accordance with the “search warrant,” Verizon disclosed the woman’s full name, new phone number, and her address, which he used to escalate his harassment efforts. He made calls to her family, friends, and job on several occasions. In November, he called the woman and said he was on the way to Cary to see her. Glauner was arrested in Cary, in possession of a black folding blade knife, two bundles of rope in the car he drove to North Carolina, and two cell phones, one of which displayed an image of the woman on its lock screen. He was later federally indicted on obtaining confidential phone records, making false statements, and obtaining phone records by claiming to be a detective with the Cary Police Department and submitting a false search warrant with a judge’s forged signature. Doctor charged with filming [...]