James Catalano, a 61-year-old Californian who lives in Fresno and loves guns, is accused of sending the father of a school shooting victim hundreds of letters and tormenting him about his deceased daughter.
Following a lengthy harassment campaign that targeted noted gun safety advocate Fred Guttenberg, James has been charged with one count of cyberstalking.
Catalano didn’t appear to be aware that he was being observed from a distance. The complaint claims that in February, Guttenberg’s webmaster put a ReCaptcha widget on the website, logging the IP address of each person who left a remark.
The government issued a subpoena to Comcast for the relevant information since the communications had originated from three separate IP addresses. One of the IP addresses was tracked to Catalano’s Fresno residence.
The second one was linked to Catalano’s commercial real estate company, J-C Markets, Inc. According to the lawsuit, while the third test results are still waiting, investigators are confident that the IP address is connected to Catalano’s company.
