The man allegedly sent the threats to his ex-girlfriend, her mother, and her mother’s partner.
A Florida man has been charged with cyberstalking after he allegedly sent death threats to the family of an ex-girlfriend over Instagram, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said Wednesday. Dominique Jade Dragan,28, a resident of Valrico, Florida, faces up to five years in federal prison if he is convicted of the charge. The DOJ said that he made an initial appearance in federal court on Tuesday. An account of the alleged cyberstalking was detailed in a sworn Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI) affidavit released by the DOJ. From January 2020 to July 2021, the FBI said that Dragan sent numerous threatening statements through Instagram’s direct messaging. The recipients of the threats included Dragan’s ex-girlfriend, his ex-girlfriend’s mother, and the mother’s partner, the affidavit said. The messages were sent with “intent to harass or intimidate” and “place another person in reasonable fear of serious injury or death,” according to the FBI. Dragan reportedly only dated the woman in question for one month in 2010 or 2011.
