A Rhode Island man accused of sending death threats to a Wisconsin district attorney is also suspected of posting sexually explicit and harassing comments to the social media accounts of several other women, including a deputy county attorney in Cochise County who is also a candidate to become a judge.
Aaron Timothy Moul was taken into custody this week by the North Providence (Rhode Island) Police Department on a nationwide arrest warrant issued after he was connected to death threats sent via phone and Facebook Messenger to District Attorney Elizabeth Gebert of Langlade County, Wisconsin.
Detective Sgt. Justin Grones of the Langlade County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to Arizona Daily Independent that a cursory examination of Moul’s various Facebook profiles found harassing messages posted to a number of women across the United States, including Kristina Guerrero-Sisneroz, a prosecutor with the Cochise County Attorney’s Office.
There is no indication Moul had any personal connection to the women he trolled, Grones said. However, most of the women appear to hold high-profile government positions.
Grones said the death threats against Gebert were first reported April 21 and included a demand for a pair of her underwear. Facebook officials helped Wisconsin authorities trace the communications to Moul, 28, a Rhode Island resident who previously confessed to stealing underwear from the homes of at least 100 women in several states.
Wisconsin investigators then worked with authorities in Rhode Island to facilitate Moul’s arrest this week. He had an initial court appearance Friday at which time he was ordered held in jail without bail pending an April 30 extradition hearing.
Guerrero-Sisneroz is running for Justice of the Peace for the greater Sierra Vista area. She has been called names and harassed before as part of her job, she says, but this time it was different, noting the postings started on her Facebook campaign page then started showing up on her personal page.
“It’s kind of freaky when someone just pegs you and won’t leave you alone,” said Guerrero-Sisneroz, who tried deleting and blocking the users’ accounts. “At first I had no idea where he really was, or who he was. And when I blocked it he seemed to get more angry. Once they told me he was in Rhode Island I felt better.”
In addition to Moul’s initial court appearance on Friday, he appeared before another Rhode Island judge to enter nolo contendere pleas on misdemeanor charges from January of engaging in an obscene or crank phone call and making a false report to police. The pleas mean Moul did not admit to the charges but agreed to be punished by the court as if he were guilty.
Moul was immediately sentenced to participate in a mental health program in lieu of jail. However, he can’t be released from jail at this time due to the outstanding Wisconsin warrant.
Records from the Rhode Island Department of Corrections also show Moul has at least two criminal convictions in that state, including obstruction of a police officer and felony larceny which resulted in a $9,000 restitution claim that remains unpaid.
In Massachusetts, Moul was arrested in 2016 for stealing items from a home he was hired to clean. He failed to appear for a hearing in that case, and in 2017 he garnered local notoriety when he flaunted his fugitive status during a media interview while posting photos of himself wearing some of the women’s underwear he claims to have stolen over the years.
Court records show he was convicted in the Massachusetts case, but the exact charges and sentence were not available as of press time.
Grones said additional information about Moul’s online activity won’t be available until a more detailed examination can be made of his various Facebook accounts.