Man Reportedly Calls DHS on Woman he Claims Conspired to Plant Chip in his Head

A West Des Moines woman told police last week that a Clive man who has been harassing her since about 2007 filed a report that caused a Dallas County social worker to pay her a call

The social worker from the Department of Human Services had received information alleging the woman “was exploiting children and may be in possession of child pornography,” according to a report on file at the West Des Moines Police Department.

Police Detective Bryan Grube followed up and said in his report that there’s no evidence the man’s allegations against the woman, 58, have any merit.

The two reportedly have a long history, dating back to six years go when they were neighbors in an Urbandale mobile home park. At the time, she said he displayed “bizarre and violent behavior on many occasions.”

She said that although she was never called to the stand as a witness, she had been asked to provide testimony regarding the man’s behavior in a child custody cas. That reportedly angered the suspect, she told West Des Moines police, and since then she and her family have been subjected to harassment.

When Grube interviewed the man about the woman’s allegations he had reported her to the DHS, he reportedly put the blame on her and said she had been conspiring with an unidentified West Des Moines police officer to get people to follow him with hand-held devices to record his conversations and activities, and he said they had planted a chip in his head “to monitor his thoughts.”

Grube asked the Polk County Mobile Crisis unit to respond and the man was determined not to be a threat to others, according to the report. Grube reportedly told him to leave the woman alone.

She told police she is “in constant fear of (the suspect) since his fixation with her began several years ago, causing her to purchase two handguns for her protection,” according to the report.