MySpace user arrested in Thousand Oaks stalking case

A Michigan man is facing a stalking charge after he showed up at the door of a Thousand Oaks woman he had been sending unwanted messages to for more than a year on the social website MySpace, Ventura County authorities said.

George Costales, 39, was arrested Wednesday and is being held in the main Ventura County Jail in lieu of $500,000 bail, officials said. He faces a single count of felony stalking.

Costales sent messages to the woman over the last year even though she repeatedly attempted to block his access to her MySpace profile, said Det. Eric Buschow of the county Sheriff's Department.

In recent months, he began sending video clips of himself that included comments of a graphic sexual nature, Buschow said. He also told the woman that he intended to move to California to be with her, the detective said.

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