Georgia man charged with stalking after putting tracking device on woman’s car

HALL COUNTY, Ga. — A Georgia man is being held without bond after being arrested for stalking a woman.

The Hall County Sheriff’s Office said Bernandino Gonzalez-Oregon, 38 of Gainesville, is in custody because he put a tracking device on a woman’s vehicle, even though she had a protective order to keep them apart.

The sheriff’s office said Gonzalez-Oregon was arrested on Saturday after admitting to putting the tracker on the woman’s vehicle.

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Before that, Gonzalez-Oregon was charged in February with simple battery under the Georgia Family Violence Act with the same woman, which is why she got a protective order against him.

HCSO said their investigation revealed Gonzalez-Oregon put the tracker in the woman’s trunk two weeks after he got out of jail for the simple battery charge.

When deputies met with the woman, they found the device in the vehicle. The woman also gave them a recording device she found under the vehicle’s passenger seat.

Gonzalez-Oregon remains in jail on an aggravated stalking charge, which is a felony.

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