A Rainbow Lake man was arrested Thursday for allegedly stalking a woman and her teenage daughter from Warren County.
Steve D. Kolnsberg, 55, faces 10 counts of second-degree aggravated harassment, a class A misdemeanor. He was arrested by Warren County sheriff's deputies following what they said was "a lengthy investigation involving the ongoing online harassment of a Queensbury woman and her fourteen-year-old daughter."
Kolnsberg had been arrested in May 2009 and charged with stalking for attempting to lure the then-12-year-old girl into a wooded area in the town of Queensbury. An order of protection was issued in that case, police said.
After that protection order ran out in September 2011, the girl and her family allegedly were inundated with harassing emails and mailings. Sheriff's investigators identified Kolnsberg as a suspect. A search warrant was later executed Thursday at two undisclosed Franklin County locations, where two computers and "corroborating evidence" was seized.
Kolnsberg was arraigned in Glens Falls City Court and remanded to the Warren County Correctional Facility in lieu of $25,000 cash bail or $50,000 bail bond.
The sheriff's office expects to add more charges following a complete forensic analysis of the computers that were seized. State police in Ray Brook and Malone, and the Malone Village Police Department assisted with the investigation. Kolnsberg worked for an accountant in Malone, where many of the harassing emails allegedly came from.
The Glens Falls Post-Star reported today that investigators are also looking into allegations that Kolnsberg harassed the wives of sheriff's deputies who arrested him in 2009. He's also expected to face charges for sending threatening emails to a Post-Star reporter who covered his prior conviction.
"The man is a one-man crime wave," Warren County Assistant District Attorney Matt Burin told the newspaper.
