The University of Connecticut police have arrested a man for allegedly stalking a player on the school's women's basketball team.
According to Eyewitness News 3, police arrested Robert Parmalee, 40, after he was reported in June for having sent numerous emails referencing a specific UConn student-athletes, as well as players at other schools.
The University of Connecticut police have arrested a man for allegedly stalking a player on the school's women's basketball team.
According to Eyewitness News 3, police arrested Robert Parmalee, 40, after he was reported in June for having sent numerous emails referencing a specific UConn student-athletes, as well as players at other schools.
The concerning emails, in which Parmalee confessed his love for women's basketball player Paige Bueckers and said he wanted to marry her, were reviewed by a UConn detective.
Social media content and posts were also gathered as evidence.
While Parmalee had no direct contact with UConn, detectives collaborated with law enforcement in Oregon, where he was residing at the time. Parmalee was taken into custody on August 27 in Windsor Locks, Conn., on an unrelated outstanding warrant in Oregon.
Eyewitness News 3 reported that Parmalee was initially held for extradition to Oregon, but recent developments indicated that Oregon law enforcement planned to dismiss the charges there, leading to his release from Hartford Correctional.
Further evidence of harassment gathered on social media over the past two months led to police obtaining a warrant and arresting him on Friday.
“We’re all fans of UConn sports especially since we see the players everyday and they interact with the students so it is scary that people take it too far,” said UConn freshman Bianca Giannandrea.
Parmalee faces charges of breach of peace in the second degree, and harassment in the second degree.
He is currently held on a $100,000 surety bond and appeared in Rockville Superior Court on Monday.
