A Lady Lake man embroiled in a bitter divorce is back behind bars after allegedly launching a vulgar cyberstalking campaign against his estranged wife’s new boyfriend.
Kevin Robert House, 54, was taken into custody on June 24 and was being held without bond at the Sumter County Detention Center on a charge of cyberstalking.
The charge stems from a June 14 incident in which the new boyfriend began receiving a barrage of insulting and threatening text messages from House. According to a Sumter County Sheriff’s Office warrant affidavit, House also changed his Facebook profile picture to a photo of the boyfriend.
The texts contained graphic, derogatory insults directed at House’s estranged wife and threats to forcefully take the former couple’s juvenile daughter from the boyfriend’s Wildwood home.
In one text, House allegedly quoted the action movie Taken, writing, “I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want… What I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Just return my daughter and this will end the best for you.”
The boyfriend replied with laughing emojis, calling the movie quote silly and referring to House as an “old man.” House retorted by calling the boyfriend a “pill popping alcoholic bald ginger on steroids.”
Despite the brief back-and-forth, the messages quickly escalated, with House warning, “I’m coming for my daughter and you better get some help to stop me.” Because House is known to possess firearms, the threats left the couple in fear that he might show up at their residence to take the child by force.
At the time of the harassment, House was already prohibited from contacting his wife—even through a third party—due to an active no-contact order. He was out on a $6,000 bond following a March arrest in which he allegedly slipped an Apple AirTag tracking device into his wife’s vehicle during a meeting at the Barnes & Noble at Lake Sumter Landing.
Court records indicate the couple’s bitter divorce is still actively playing out in Sumter County Court.