Cody Vandusen
By Patti Weaver
(Stillwater, Okla.) — An ex-convict on probation for stalking one woman was arraigned Tuesday on a felony charge of using Facebook Messenger to allegedly threaten the lives of another woman and her children by blowing them up.
Cody Lynn Vandusen, 29, of Stillwater, who was arrested last week and freed on $10,000 bail, could be given as much as a 20-year prison term and $100,000 fine if convicted of violating the Oklahoma Computer Crimes Act.
A woman reported to Stillwater police in July that “she has been harassed over Facebook by Cody Vandusen since April,” an affidavit by Stillwater Police Officer Josh Rudluff alleged.
She “told me she started talking to Cody in March, but was not very interested in a relationship. She said when she didn’t act interested, Cody quickly started sending harassing messages through Facebook Messenger. She stated on April 24th he sent a video to her threatening to blow her and her kids up. He also told her he would blow up her mother’s house,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
The woman said she “blocked him on social media, but since April he has made different accounts and continues to send her messages,” to which she does not reply, the affidavit alleged. The Stillwater officer said he “tried to contact Cody, but was not able to. Cody has a history of threats and stalking,” the affidavit alleged.
Last year, Vandusen was arrested and jailed on $75,000 bail on a charge of stalking his children’s mother “by repeated telephone calls, text messages, confronting her at her apartment and damaging her vehicle,” while she had a protective order against him.
Vandusen pleaded guilty two months later to stalking and was given a one-year jail term followed by nine years of probation, court records show.
Vandusen had previously been convicted of drug possession in the presence of a minor in Pawnee County, for which in 2015 he was given a five-year prison term, but served less than three years before his release in February of 2018, state Department of Corrections records show.
Also on the same day in 2015, Vandusen’s probation was revoked to concurrent prison terms in two separate 2011 cases in Pawnee County of second-degree burglary and stolen property possession. Vandusen had also been given probation in Osage County in 2014 for conspiracy in Hominy, court records show.
