LOS ANGELES
A federal grand jury indicted Port Hueneme man on charges of making threats to rape and kill a student who is the daughter of a woman he allegedly began stalking and harassing in 1991.
Serge Agopian, 49, was named in a three-count indictment that charges him with sending threatening communications in an email and letters sent through the U.S. Mail.
The indictment charges Agopian with one count of threats by interstate communications and two counts of mailing threatening communications, each of which carries a statutory maximum penalty of five years in federal prison.
According to his Linkedin account, Agopian is a finance and marketing in Port Hueneme.
The charges against Agopian stem from three identical threatening communications he allegedly sent anonymously to the student in April.
The victim is the daughter of a woman Agopian began harassing when they attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, according to a criminal complaint previously filed in this case.
During the investigation, FBI agents interviewed the victim’s mother, who described how Agopian apparently saw her at a party in 1991, contacted her “out of the blue” even though they had never met, and began sending “unsolicited roses, cassette tapes with recorded love songs, poetry, letters, and condoms to her residence,” according to the affidavit in support of the criminal complaint.
The victim’s mother told investigators that she asked Agopian to stop all communications, but she believed he continued to send packages anonymously after she moved to her parents’ residence – including roses with dog feces and an item that resembled a bomb.
The victim’s mother obtained restraining orders against Agopian that were in effect for nearly 10 years, according to court documents.
Nevertheless, Agopian continued to contact her, including in the fall of 1991 in the UCSB bookstore, where he pushed her into a shelf of books, resulting in Agopian’s arrest, according to the affidavit.
Agopian later filed a defamation lawsuit against the victim’s mother.
For many years after the lawsuit was resolved, the victim’s mother and her family received “very vulgar, lewd, and obscene letters,” which she believed came from Agopian, according to the affidavit.
The criminal complaint notes that one of the letters sent to the victim in April had a fingerprint that matched fingerprints obtained from Agopian during the restraining order proceedings.
Agopian is presumed innocent unless proven guilty. He is scheduled to be arraigned on Sept. 15.