A New Hampshire man, accused of stalking an upstate New York resident and business owner on the ground and by air for the past four years, was arrested again this week for violating protective orders against him.

Police told the Albany Times-Union that Michael Arnold, 65, was arrested on his way to the William H. Morse State Airport in Bennington, Vermont, where his single engine Cessna sits.

He was charged with aggravated stalking with court order violation, violation of an abuse prevention order, giving police false information in order to implicate another, attempted impeding of a public officer, and resisting arrest, according to the Bennington Banner.

Cassandra Wilusz says that he’s been harassing her since 2019, when he came into her Schuylerville restaurant, ordered soup, and afterward starting messaging her.

“He flies so close to the house that it feels like he’s going to go through it,” Wilusz told WRGB. “It’s a nightmare that just doesn’t stop.”

Sometimes, she said, he throws tomatoes at her house.

She told the Times-Union that he started sending her pictures of her home, her pool, her family and friends and that he accused her of killing her father, who died in a fire in 2017.

Early on, Arnold was arrested on misdemeanor charges and given a restraining order, but the harassment never stopped. In May, WRGB captured video of Arnold driving by Wilusz’s restaurant, and in June, the FBI joined the investigation.

After the arrest in Vermont, Arnold was arrested again in Schuylerville an charged with nine more counts of violating a protective order. He was arraigned on Friday and bonded out that night.

He told the Banner that Wilusz is “nuts” and “wants publicity.”

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[Featured image: WRGB screenshot]