A 26-year-old Palm Beach Gardens man is facing felony charges after investigators say he stalked his former boyfriend for months and secretly planted a tracking device on the victim's car. Kyle Glass was arrested on stalking and installing-a-tracking-device charges, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, which provided information about the arrest.
The victim told investigators the harassment continued well after the relationship ended, reporting unwanted phone calls, threats, uninvited visits to homes where he was staying, and unwanted contact on social media, as reported by WPBF. He also told detectives that Glass seemed to know his whereabouts without any explanation, according to the detectives who investigated the case.
A Tracker and a Text Message Confession
The victim eventually discovered a tracking device attached to his vehicle, and he turned over text messages to investigators that allegedly show Glass admitting to placing it there himself. Investigators say Glass made statements admitting to planting the device on the victim's car, giving detectives a direct link between the suspect and the surveillance the victim says he had been describing for weeks.
The case did not stop with one device or one witness. Investigators say Glass also showed up at another witness's residence, and that witness separately claimed a tracking device was found on his own vehicle as well. Detectives reviewed messages, videos, photographs and other evidence as part of the investigation, and investigators also obtained recordings from court hearings connected to the case.
What Florida Law Says About Stalking and Tracking Devices
Under Florida Statutes, section 784.048, a person who willfully, maliciously and repeatedly follows, harasses or cyberstalks another person commits stalking, a first-degree misdemeanor. The same statute defines harassment as a course of conduct directed at a specific person that causes substantial emotional distress and serves no legitimate purpose. Stalking becomes aggravated stalking, a third-degree felony, when the person makes a credible threat to the victim. The statute also allows officers to make a warrantless arrest when they have probable cause to believe someone violated the law.
Glass's case lands amid a broader statewide crackdown on hidden tracking devices used to monitor former partners. Florida courts have handled more than 150 cases involving unlawful tracking under the stalking law since 2021, according to records cited by WUFT. Legislation has since raised the penalty for stalking involving hidden tracking devices from a misdemeanor to a felony, with a maximum prison term of five years.
A Pattern of Similar Arrests in Palm Beach County
Glass's arrest is not an isolated case in the area. More than 100 tracking-device charges had been filed statewide in a single recent year, which CBS12 described as the highest spike since Apple AirTags entered the market, and Palm Beach County Victim Services had served 164 stalking victims in that same period, according to program manager Jannifer Diaz. As of October 1, 2025, Florida law allows up to 15 years in prison for using high-tech tracking devices to commit certain serious offenses, including murder, aggravated assault, kidnapping, rape or robbery.
Other Palm Beach Gardens cases echo the allegations against Glass. Resident Nautica Brown, 28, was accused of secretly placing a GPS tracker on her ex-girlfriend's car and was arrested in November, with the victim discovering a blue Nano Spark 7 GPS tracker hidden behind the rear bumper of her vehicle. On the same day Florida's updated tracking-device law took effect last October, Palm Beach Gardens police arrested a separate man accused of placing a tracking device under his partner's car and violently stalking her, and the Martin County Sheriff's Office made a comparable arrest days earlier after finding a device hidden on an ex-girlfriend's car.
Earlier cases show how penalties have shifted over time. In Gainesville, David Anthony Velez pleaded no contest in June 2022 to a misdemeanor charge for installing a tracking device in his ex-girlfriend's vehicle and received a $276 fine with no jail time, while Zachary Neal Welch was sentenced to 120 days in jail and fined $850 for placing an Apple AirTag under his former boyfriend's car seat.
