Virginia Man Charged with Accessing Personal Computer
and Using it to Violate a Restraining Order

Madison, Wisconsin -- Erik C. Peterson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced the unsealing today of a six-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Madison, Wis., on August 28, 2008, which charged Stephan Grezskowiak, 34, of Williamsburg, Va., with five counts of unlawfully intercepting computer communications, and one count of unlawfully accessing another person's personal computer and then using information obtained from that unauthorized computer access to contact that person in violation of a restraining order entered in the State of Minnesota on May 18, 2007.

Grezskowiak was arrested without incident on September 16 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Newport News, Va. He will have an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Virginia at 3:00 p.m. CDT today.

If convicted, Grezskowiak faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine on each charge. The charge against Grezskowiak is the result of an investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Prosecution of the case has been assigned to Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy M. O'Shea.

You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.

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