Woman charged with stalking, tracking former roommate
Police have charged an Altoona woman for stalking a former roommate, tracking the location of his vehicles and installing a hidden camera inside his home.
Adams Township police charged Krystal Gayle Schultz, 46, with one felony count each of computer theft and criminal use of a communication device, and misdemeanor stalking related to multiple incidents between February 2022 and June 2023.
Police said the man visited the station with his attorney, Patrick Casey, on June 6, 2023, to report the stalking. Police said the man submitted a 16-tab binder detailing the alleged incidents.
Evidence in the binder implicated Schultz of placing a USB cellphone charger with a pinhole camera in his living room and adding mSpy phone tracking software to his company phone that tracks texts, emails, phone calls and locations in February 2022, according to the criminal complaint.
The complaint alleges she installed a tracker on his company vehicles prior to January 2023. Police said one tracker was still on his vehicle at the time of the report.
The man claimed Schultz and her attorneys took confidential information exchanged between him and his lawyer from the phone and used it during civil court proceedings, according to the affidavit.
Police said the man contacted mSpy and confirmed Schultz had an account with them linked to software on the phone before deactivating the account. Police said he also provided Schultz’s credit card bills showing two transactions with the spy company and pretrial statements from June 2023 where she admits tracking him to a psychologist.
Police also said Schultz used the man’s laptop without permission. Using a VPN, Schultz logged into his work computer system and downloaded personal files, texts, photos, videos and emails, according to the affidavit. Police said she used his computer without permission in multiple instances.
Police said they found one tracker on the man’s vehicle and another in his residence linked to Schultz through credit card bills. The man contacted a company associated with one of the trackers and the account used to monitor his phone was blocked.
Police subpoenaed the spyware companies and found repeated customer support requests with Schultz from February 2022 to March 2023.
Schultz is awaiting a date for her preliminary hearing.