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LOS ANGELES<\/strong> \u2013 The owner of a Temecula art gallery who stalked, harassed and attempted to extort as much as $300,000 from art world professionals was sentenced Monday to five years in federal prison.<\/p>\n

Jason White<\/strong>, 43, of Temecula, plead guilty in March to two counts of federal stalking.<\/p>\n

U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson, who sentenced White to five fears, called White\u2019s crimes \u201dhorrendous\u201d and \u201cvery disturbing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGiven the ominous, angry and relentless nature of the messages, the victims had a reasonable fear that defendant planned to hunt down and kill their spouses and children,\u201d prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memo filed with the court. \u201cIndeed, this case is a parent\u2019s worst nightmare that will likely haunt the victims for the rest of their lives because they will always be fearful that defendant may find their children and make good on his threats.\u201d<\/p>\n

White targeted several art world professionals with home he had business relationships. When those relationships ended, White put up derogatory information on\u00a0these professionals on websites White created.<\/p>\n

White is the owner of White Galleries located in the 41000 block of Margarita Road in Temecula,\u00a0according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n

According to the criminal complaint, in a text message to his former supervisor, he threatened to\u00a0find her family and make her pay with \u201cfear, anguish, and pain.\u201d<\/p>\n

On several occasions, according to the complaint, White obtained pictures of her child and sent pictures of the child to the victim with comments such as \u201cit will be very unfortunate if something was to happen to him.\u201d<\/p>\n

During this time, officials stated in the complaint that White continued to demand payment in exchange for taking down the websites he had created, and made it known to these victims that their business reputation would be ruined and that his websites would forever show up anytime anyone searched for their name on the internet.<\/p>\n

Authorities allege that White went to the Facebook page of a well-known artist\u00a0represented by the art publisher and posted a picture of himself, along with a statement that he was\u00a0focusing on the artist\u2019s wife and child.<\/p>\n

White allegedly wrote that he would be waiting in the bushes to \u201cknee cap a child.\u201d Through the \u00a0Facebook message, White told the artist, \u201cyour children are my end game.<\/p>\n

During today\u2019s sentencing hearing, two of the victims spoke, telling Judge Wilson how they felt terrorized by the barrage of threatening emails and texts that White sent them.<\/p>\n

White\u2019s \u201cconduct also demonstrates a disturbing and escalating pattern of stalking conduct, particularly since he committed these crimes less than one year after a \u00a0restraining order was filed against him by another former employer for identical cyber stalking and extortion conduct,\u201d according to the government\u2019s sentencing position papers. \u201cAs defendant intended, his stalking crimes traumatized his victims.\u201d<\/p>\n

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