A Bristol man accused of stalking his ex girlfriend by attaching a transponder to her vehicle in one caseΒ assaulting her in a second intimidating a witness in a third, and flight from prosecutionΒ had most of his charges held over during a Wednesday preliminary hearing at Bristol Borough District Court.
Sean Bronner, 35 recently released on bail by a county judge, is heading to trial in the four cases, after successive hearings before District Judge David J. Chichilitti last week.
Borough Police and Bucks County detectives initiated the investigation into Bronner last May.
The survivor, who co-parents a child with Bronner, testified she is terrified of the suspect who has repeatedly “violated” the judge’s orders to stay away from her.
“He is obsessed” with me,” she told police after Bronner’s arrest by investigators , subsequent to the discovery of a tracking device and his alleged use of air tags to surreptitiously track the survivor.
Bronner has repeatedly violated PFAβs dating back to at least 2020, authorities noted in court papers.
Gail Nicolina Marr, Esq. of Young, Marr, Mallis and Associates., Bronner’s attorney, asked investigators during the “stalking” hearing if they had seen for themselves whether the Bristol man put the alleged tracking device on the survivor’s vehicle, which they testified they did not.
Credit: Lower Bucks Hospital
Prosecutors presented testimony and evidence from investigatorsΒ connecting the tracking device(s) and Air Tags back to Bronner through a series of search warrants served on the companies who created the digitalΒ mechanisms. The tracking devices were discovered by the survivor and reported to Bristol Borough Police on two separate occasions- one attached to the rear bumper; a second attached the undercarriage of the survivors, Jeep lastΒ August.
An example of a Land, Air, Sea tracking device.
Credit: Submitted
Investigators said when the survivor, was notified of an Apple Air Tag, she engaged a feature that would emit a beep like sound that would alert law enforcement she was being tracked by the digital mechanism.
The Bluetooth based tracking devices is designed to seamlessly help usersΒ track of and locate personal items using Apple’s global Find My network. They leverage hundreds of millions of interconnected iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices worldwide to securely and anonymously crowdsource the location of your lost belongings, according to Apple.
Chichilitti said both the attorney’s presented good arguments before forwarding the stalking, terroristic threats and related offense cases for trial. He reminded Bronner the “no contact” orders with his ex girlfriend are still in place as the hearing concluded.
Bronner is due back in court for formal arraignment on July 2o. and remains free on bondΒ for the four cases.
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