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Holiday Woman Sentenced to Federal Prison for Cyberstalking, Online Threats

Tammy Masrie Steffen | U.S.Attorney | Courts

So far, the FBI has identified at least 369 Instagram accounts and 18 email accounts that she created and used to cyberstalk, harass, and threaten the victims, the U.S. attorney says.

TAMPA – A Holiday woman was sentenced to four years and nine months in federal prison for cyberstalking and sending threatening communications online, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida.

Tammy Marie Steffen, 37, of Holiday, pleaded guilty Dec. 21. She was sentenced Friday (Sept. 20).

According to the plea agreement, from at least August 2016 and continuing through July 2018, Steffen harassed or intimidated six people. Specifically, Steffen cyberstalked, harassed, and threatened several of her former colleagues and associates through repeated emails, phone calls, text messages, and social media messages using numerous phone numbers and accounts. Thus far, the FBI has identified at least 369 Instagram accounts and 18 email accounts that Steffen had created and used to cyberstalk, harass, and threaten the victims.

Steffen threatened, among other things, to “slice [the victim] up into little pieces” and told another victim that “all hell is gonna rain fire down on your world like never seen before” and then sent a picture of a female holding two knives, with a caption that read, “I’m coming.”

In addition to the threatening messages online, Steffen made countless “spoofed” phone calls to the victims. She used voice-disguising software to mask her identity when she repeatedly called the victims at their homes and businesses.

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