LOS ANGELES—A former Marine from Orange County faces sentencing on July 13 for using hundreds of Twitter accounts to torment a professional online gamer he fixated on during a long-running harassment campaign.
Evan Baltierra, 30, of Trabuco Canyon, pleaded guilty last year in Los Angeles to one count of stalking, a crime that carries a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Baltierra met the victim, a prominent “World of Warcraft” gamer whose name was not released, at a convention in Anaheim in November 2019. After the meeting, Baltierra asked to meet the woman in her hometown in Calgary, Canada, which made her feel uncomfortable, according to papers filed in Los Angeles federal court….