A 38-year-old Port Orchard man was in Kitsap County Superior Court May 8 being held on $500,000 bail.

He was charged with felony stalking, felony harassment for threatening to kill and second-degree malicious mischief. If convicted, he faces a maximum of 20 years in prison and $40,000 in fines.

Probable cause papers show:

Bremerton police responded April 14 to a woman who found an Apple Airtag affixed to her vehicle that was not hers. The tag was inside a magnet mount that had been placed under the rear of her vehicle, on the fuel tank.

She dated the suspect for about a year before breaking up a month before when she told him he could not live with her.

The man reportedly followed her while doing deliveries on her job, said her boss, who changed her hours to days so she would be safer. The suspect was seen wearing a mask and hood leaving the victim’s house with a stack of packages or mail April 14. The victim said she had been missing mail.

The victim said she also received many texts from the suspect, saying he was going to kill her. “I don’t know, I guess so,” she said, when asked if she thought he might follow through with the request.

On May 4, she said the harassment and stalking continued. She said the suspect had shot up a co-worker’s car, but that was not reported to police. She said she had seen the suspect with a gun before. She said he kept texting her from random phone numbers with apps infamous for being used for scams and spoof calls.

When dealing with her she made sure to keep everything going on from her kids. She did not want them to be exposed to it, or to be scared or to have any disruptions to their routines, an officer said.

Police were shown photos the suspect had sent to her that were taken in her backyard and even in her house during all hours of the night while she was sleeping.

The woman said she was addicted to fentanyl, and the suspect had threatened to send a photo to her family and landlord of drugs and a large amount of cash. She denied being a drug dealer and said if she lost the house she would have nowhere to live with her two boys.

The woman said she stopped calling police despite continued harassment because nothing was getting done. However, officers had been policing her neighborhood in case the suspect showed up.

On May 5, an officer responded to a complaint that cameras had been placed on her property to watch her. The officer noted three tires on her car were slashed and a rock was used to break her windshield.

Police researched that the suspect has five felony convictions, three for assault, and 18 misdemeanor convictions.

Police worked with a cell phone company to get a “ping” on the suspect’s phone. He was at a casino near Yelm.

The suspect was in the rear of his vehicle surrounded by curtains so he could not be seen. He would not come out so Thurston County deputies fired two non-lethal rounds into a rear passenger window to see what was going on. He then gave up.

He was detained. He said he wanted to call his daughter, but instead called the victim, yelling at her, so officers ceased his phone.

When Bremerton police arrived he admitted his recent actions were “terrible mistakes,” “lapses in judgment,” and he is not that person. He said she would ask him to bring her food, smoke meth with him and turn around and ask him to leave. He said sometimes she would “seriously make things up.” He also said he was jealous of her and other men.

He later admitted to pulling a knife on her and shooting at her co-worker. He said he threw the gun off the Warren Avenue bridge.