A 44-year-old Granite Bay, California man pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal stalking and identity theft charges after admitting he spent 14 years posting his ex-girlfriend's intimate photos online, created fake social media accounts in her name, and later impersonated her to steal confidential records from her divorce attorney. Jason David Campos entered the plea in U.S. District Court in Portland, Oregon, closing out a case that stretched from the end of their relationship in 2008 to his arrest last year.
A Relationship That Turned Into Years of Online Harassment
Campos and his then-girlfriend were together before 2004, and in 2007 he told her a laptop containing nude images of her had been stolen, according to the seed facts in this case. The couple split in 2008, and by 2009 she discovered her nude photos had been posted without her consent across social media, advertising sites, and sex forums, as reported by KOIN 6 News. Campos admitted to creating accounts in her name to post the images himself, and he encouraged others to harass her, at times including her current boyfriend's contact information in the posts, per the same report.
The harassment did not stop even after Campos was convicted of burglary, assault, and attempted rape in a separate California case in 2019. He continued creating accounts and sharing his ex-girlfriend's photos online after he was released on parole that same year, the station's report states.
Impersonation Reached Into Her Attorney's Office
In 2021, Campos escalated the scheme by creating an email account in his ex-girlfriend's name to impersonate her and deceive her divorce attorney into handing over her confidential client file, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. As part of his plea agreement, Campos agreed to pay restitution to his ex-girlfriend, the Justice Department noted.
Federal authorities arrested Campos in Granite Bay following his 2025 indictment on charges of stalking, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft in Oregon. He was held in federal custody after an initial court appearance before a U.S. Magistrate Judge in Sacramento, before jurisdiction shifted to Portland, according to the Justice Department's account of the arrest.
Guilty Plea and the Charges That Remain
Campos pleaded guilty to stalking and identity theft, and the remaining charges against him were dismissed. He faces a maximum of five years in prison on the stalking count, which falls under 18 U.S.C. § 2261A, the federal cyberstalking statute that applies when harassment crosses state lines through electronic communications, as explained by Eisner Gorin LLP. Congress added those anti-stalking provisions to federal law under the Violence Against Women Act specifically to address interstate cyber harassment like the conduct described in this case.
Campos also faces a mandatory two-year sentence for aggravated identity theft. Under 18 U.S.C. § 1028A, that term must run consecutively to any sentence for the underlying stalking offense, eliminating any judicial discretion to let the sentences overlap, according to Bulldog Law. In practical terms, the plea agreement guarantees additional prison time beyond whatever sentence is handed down for the stalking charge alone. Sentencing is scheduled for February 1, 2027.
Scott Bradford said those who use the internet to harass, intimidate, and exploit others will be held accountable, and that his office remains committed to protecting victims of online abuse and ensuring offenders face full consequences.
A Case Set Against Growing Federal Protections
The case unfolds against a backdrop of expanding federal tools meant to address exactly this kind of harm. Under the 2022 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, victims of non-consensual intimate image sharing gained a federal civil right of action, letting them sue perpetrators directly in federal court for monetary damages and court-ordered image removal, per the Justice Department. More recently, the federal Take It Down Act, enacted in May 2025, criminalized the non-consensual distribution of intimate images with penalties of up to three years in prison and set a 48-hour compliance period for offenders, according to Mending the Sacred Hoop.
Research suggests cases like this one are far from isolated. A 2023 study conducted by the RAND Corporation for the National Institute of Justice found that federal cyberstalking prosecutions rose steadily between 2014 and 2019, with 412 total cases filed in federal courts over the decade from 2010 to 2020, and that the vast majority of those cases involved perpetrators already known to the victim. Separately, survey data from victim advocacy groups shows 16% of young adult cyberstalking victims report having explicit images shared online without their consent.
