A man was arrested on stalking charges after he traveled across the country to the Arkansas home of a woman who is a video game streamer, according to a probable cause affidavit.
Joshua John Moore, 30, of Lynnwood, Wash., was taken into custody around 3:30 a.m. Saturday in Rogers on stalking charges and a misdemeanor charge of obstructing governmental operations, the affidavit states.
Police said Moore, who wore a yellow raincoat and a blue suit and held flowers, was sitting outside the home of a woman that he had been stalking for a year. She told authorities that Moore had sent “countless” emails threatening to rape her and kill her boyfriend.
When officers asked for his name, he called himself “one love” and said that the Rogers woman invited him, the affidavit states.
Police found a Washington ID in his wallet and photos of the woman and a Greyhound bus ticket from Washington in his backpack, according to court documents.
The woman told authorities that Moore had said he “was coming to Arkansas via bus to marry her” and that he had sent her a photo from the Fayetteville station where he arrived. According to court documents, he then walked to her home.
The victim posts videos on Twitch, a video game streaming site, and has over 500,000 followers, police said.
Moore has been sending her messages for the past year, some of which were threatening, authorities said. She gave police some of the letters, lingerie and gifts the 30-year-old had sent. The woman has never “spoken to or messaged Moore” according to the affidavit.
In one email, Moore wrote that he would put the woman and her family in a garbage bin and light them on fire and that he would “blow her face” with a homemade hydrogen bomb, the affidavit states.
Moore was being held in the Benton County jail Tuesday afternoon in lieu of a $20,000 bond, an online inmate roster shows. He is set to appear in court Nov. 13.