CEDAR RAPIDS, IA – An Iowa man was sentenced to a decade in federal prison for cyber-stalking a Minnesota woman with conduct the judge likened to a form of mental torture.
U.S. District Judge C.J. Williams also ordered during a sentencing hearing Friday that 58-year-old Michael Shawn McGuire of Cresco, Iowa, pay a $15,000 fine and $17,500 in restitution to the woman. The U.S. attorney’s office said in a news release Monday that McGuire pleaded guilty in December to four counts of cyber-stalking.
The woman met McGuire on an online dating website in 2017 and the two dated for several months before she broke up with him.