Man Who Allegedly Wanted to Kill Ex-Girlfriend Busted

A man was taken into custody when he got off a plane at Portland International Airport after authorities received information he was looking to kill his ex-girlfriend.

Tolga Safer Yilmaz is being held in Multnomah County Jail and will appear in federal court on Thursday.

He is charged in New York with stalking. The arrest was first reported by KOIN News.

According to court papers, Yilmaz met a woman from Portland while he was in college here. They dated on an off from Spring 2008 to Spring 2009.

After they broke up and Yilmaz was no longer a student, he called her professors and accused her of academic misconduct. As a result she complained to campus police.

The court papers don't indicate what college they had attended.

She then moved to New York and, police say, the harassment continued, "primarily through unremitting electronic communications."

The following year, she sought a restraining order and Yilmaz signed a no-contact agreement, according to court papers.

Police say that from October 2011 through April 2014, Yilmaz sent the woman approximately 10,694 emails. On some days he sent hundreds of emails - such as January 25, 2014 when, according to police, he sent 379 emails.

"Nearly all of the emails harassed or threatened" the victim, according to court papers.

As an example, police say that an email sent on April 10, 2014, had the subject line: 'I AM GOING TO KILL YOU FOR CALLING ME WEAK' and the body of the email said: 'THAT POLICE REPORT CANNOT STOP ME: YOU WILL SEE!'

Police say the threats of violence continued.

On February 20, 2016, court papers say, he wrote to her: "I am going to riddle your body until justice is restored. You can't ruin a person's entire life and get away with it. You're going to suffer the most painful death."

On May 13, 2016, he wrote her at her work, saying: 'I know where you work now. See you soon."

Police discovered he would be flying into Portland on May 17 from Istanbul and had a return ticket to Istanbul out of New York on April 2.

When Yilmaz landed in Portland, the was arrested.