A New York man will spend the next four years behind bars after his attempts to get revenge against his ex-girlfriend went too far. Thomas Traficante admitted to posting his ex-girlfriend's personal information on a prostitution website and mailing drugs to her at college with the goal of having her arrested.
Traficante met the unnamed woman through a dating website, and the two dated until the end of October. The break-up sent Traficante off the rails and he started harassing her and her sorority sisters at SUNY Geneseo in upstate New York. He made threatening phone calls to the woman and her friends, using a device to disguise his voice, and sent drugs, including cocaine and methamphetamines, to her college dorm in an attempt to have her arrested or expelled. In one instance, he was alleged to have fired a BB gun at the Long Island home of his ex-girlfriend's family.
U.S. District Judge David Larimer chose to give Traficante to four years behind bars, which is longer than what is recommended by federal sentencing guidelines. Judge Larimer told him that his actions were "despicable."
"If you had a modicum of intelligence, you should know that what you did, repeatedly, was despicable."
Traficante's attorney, Raymond Perini, wanted his client sentenced to probation and plans to appeal the judge's decision.