LA Man Accused Of Cyberstalking Minnesota College Student

MINNESOTA — A Los Angeles man is accused of harassing and stalking a Minnesota college student online. Ki Cheung Yau, 27, faces one count of cyberstalking.

Yau made his first court appearance Tuesday before a judge in the Central District of California, who ordered that Yau be detained and transferred to Minnesota while in custody.

Authorities say that from Jan. 4, 2020, until he was arrested, Yau created online accounts on various social media platforms, dating websites and pornography websites, using the name, photos and personal information of a woman attending college in Minnesota.

Yau, pretending to be the student, used the accounts to communicate with others, seek sexual relationships and advertise invitations for violent sexual encounters, according to the criminal complaint.

Federal investigators say that on two separate occasions, a man went to the student's home and asked for her by name, "presumably because he believed he was meeting the victim for a sexual encounter."

She has also been contacted by phone by men she does not know, authorities said. The student was forced to move and change her phone number, the criminal complaint states.