A 27-year-old Los Angeles woman is facing a federal stalking charge for allegedly using email, the internet and the telephone to intimidate two victims, the FBI announced Tuesday.
Evghenia Scripnic allegedly targeted people identified in court papers only as Victims 1 and 2, causing “substantial emotional distress” to both, as well as the immediate family members of the second person, according to the FBI.
In 2024 and this year, Scripnic allegedly emailed Victim 1 at least 166 times and Victim 2 533 times, according to the indictment filed in L.A. federal court last week.
The alleged victims were not named in court papers.
Prosecutors allege Scripnic stalked one of the victims in violation of a restraining and no-contact order previously issued in Superior Court.
At her Aug.14 arraignment, Scripnic pleaded not guilty to one count of stalking. A federal magistrate judge in downtown Los Angeles ordered her released on bond and scheduled an Oct. 7 trial date.
Scripnic, according to the indictment, emailed “vulgar and denigrating messages” to Victim 1, including on one occasion where she asked the victim, “Do you need garden tools for digging a grave?”
Last November, Scripnic allegedly emailed the U.S. ambassador of a European country and wrote, among other things, that Victim 1 was a “fraud” and among the “dregs of society,” according to the FBI.
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