Suffolk County Police today arrested a Deer Park man for stalking four women online and over the phone over the last three years.
Four women separately contacted police reporting they received sexually inappropriate phone calls and messages from an unknown man dating back to April 2020. Following an investigation, Fifth Precinct Crime Section officers determined Joseph Mathews had been searching for women through local business and neighborhood pages online and found their contact information on the internet. Over the course of three years, he called the four women hundreds of times and sent numerous messages, mostly sexual in nature.
Fifth Precinct Crime Section officers executed a search warrant at Mathews home, located at 153 East 2nd Street, and he was taken into custody at 2:04 p.m.
Mathews, 49, was charged with four counts of Stalking 2nd Degree, a felony. He is being held overnight at the Fifth Precinct and will be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip on May 17.
Police are asking anyone who may have been victimized by Mathews to call the Fifth Precinct Crime Section at 631-854-8526.
