Ex-cop arrested for allegedly stalking World of Warcraft streamer

polygon.com:

Federal police arrested a former Los Angeles World Airport Police officer, Evan Baltierra, for allegedly stalking and harassing a World of Warcraft Twitch streamer. Baltierra, who is 29, will appear in United States District Court Tuesday, according to the California Department of Justice.

Baltierra has allegedly been stalking and harassing a former Twitch streamer, who goes by the name Nali online, since 2020. Nali described the harassment in a TwitLonger post published in January, in which she said Baltierra had been threatening her, her boyfriend, and their families with violence, as well as spreading images wherein her face had been edited onto naked bodies. In a news release, the California Department of Justice noted Baltierra first met the streamer at 2019 BlizzCon, Blizzard Entertainment’s annual gaming convention, during a meet-and-greet with fans. He was previously a moderator of her Twitch stream but after their meeting at BlizzCon, Nali removed him, according to an affidavit written by Federal Bureau of Investigations special agent Steven Wrathall and reviewed by Polygon.

The affidavit states that Baltierra’s harassment escalated from there, before Nali, a Canada resident, filed a restraining order against Baltierra. (Nali said in her TwitLonger post that she raised funds for a lawyer on GoFundMe.) A civil agreement was signed wherein Baltierra said he would stop harassing the streamer.

He allegedly kept harassing Nali and others connected to her, including sharing personal information — like her full name and a P.O. box address — that he had learned during the hearing. He also allegedly sent escalating threats of violence to Nali, her friends, and family, and attempted to hire a private investigator to find