A federal judge in San Antonio denied bond on Monday for a Nebraska man charged with stalking and threatening a social-media influencer for Black Rifle Coffee Company.
Federal authorities allege John Klotz, 30, sent Heather Owen several sexually “perverted” direct messages through Instagram.
He then showed up unannounced while she was visiting a Black Rifle franchise location in Boerne on Oct. 8, FBI agent Landon Maroney testified.
“She’s in a lot of their videos and produces a lot of their videos and has a big internet backing,” Maroney explained to U.S. Magistrate Judge Richard Farrer.
Owen told Boerne police that Klotz sent her up to 100 direct messages a day, according to Maroney.
In one, “he said at 12 years old he knew he was a killer, and at 14 he was able to take those urges away by doing other activities,” Maroney testified.
He said Owen became alarmed and saved screen shots of Klotz’s messages.
“She stated something about Mr. Klotz’s messages and the way he talked about sexual perversions,” he testified. “It just continued to happen that it frightened her, and she memorialized them. She screen-shotted them and saved them to a Google Drive.”
In other messages, Klotz told her he planned to travel to Texas, saying in one that he saw her at a Black Rifle Coffee location in San Antonio on Oct. 7, according to Maroney. Owen hadn’t publicized in advance which stores she was going to visit.
Klotz was arrested at the scene in Boerne.
The FBI later got a search warrant for several bags of luggage Klotz had with him. Among the luggage was a duffle bag filled with silk ties, duct tape, electrical tape, rope, condoms and a multitude of sex toys, according to Maroney. He also allegedly carried examination gloves, lubricant and benzocaine, a local anesthetic, in powder form and five books on bondage.
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