My question involves criminal law for the state of: Virginia
My exboyfriend owes me money that he has verbally agreed to pay me. After being unemployed since last October, he got a job in June and says he is financially trying to catch up. I keep an eye on him by viewing his website for a business he started and by scant information on Facebook in order to see if I can tell whether or not he is being honest about his financial situation. I also watch the website and his facebook business page because he agreed to take down photos that I took that he had posted there. Last month I sent him a paypal invoice for the money owed and requested the photos removed. During this time, I have been watching what little I can see. Once I discovered the photos removed, I stopped looking at his site. I also recently sent him another reminder of payment. This time I decided to send an envelope with the the thought that it would be a physical reminder to pay and save him a stamp. It was nondescript, addressed to him and with only a post-it note inside with the amount. I mailed it to where he works so he wouldn't just throw it in a pile with the mail he gets at his house. He is now threatening me with a restraining order and accusing me of harassment. Additionally he claims that because I look at his business website, I am stalking him. I also have a couple of facebook pages. I have him blocked on one and he has me blocked on my other one. Before he blocked my other one, he could see me venting. My venting consisted of remarks vaguely related to him, but no names are ever mentioned and I have never posted to his website and I can't post on his Facebook nor would I if I could. He has also accused me of sending things to his house. I sent a pair of weight training straps back to him that were his with no note.
So that is the extent of my contact....no posts, but viewing his site and sending his one invoice and later an empty envelope.
Does he have grounds to file orders on me for harassment, or would the judge think it frivolous? I am no threat to him at 5 feet tall, and I have never contacted his family.
I found these online:
§ 18.2-60. Threats of death or bodily injury to a person or member of his family; threats to commit serious bodily harm to persons on school property; penalty.
A. 1. Any person who knowingly communicates, in a writing, including an electronically transmitted communication producing a visual or electronic message, a threat to kill or do bodily injury to a person, regarding that person or any member of his family, and the threat places such person in reasonable apprehension of death or bodily injury to himself or his family member, is guilty of a Class 6 felony. However, any person who violates this subsection with the intent to commit an act of terrorism as defined in § 18.2-46.4 is guilty of a Class 5 felony.
2. Any person who communicates a threat, in a writing, including an electronically transmitted communication producing a visual or electronic message, to kill or do bodily harm, (i) on the grounds or premises of any elementary, middle or secondary school property, (ii) at any elementary, middle or secondary school-sponsored event or (iii) on a school bus to any person or persons, regardless of whether the person who is the object of the threat actually receives the threat, and the threat would place the person who is the object of the threat in reasonable apprehension of death or bodily harm, is guilty of a Class 6 felony.
B. Any person who orally makes a threat to any employee of any elementary, middle or secondary school, while on a school bus, on school property or at a school-sponsored activity, to kill or to do bodily injury to such person, is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
A prosecution pursuant to this section may be either in the county, city or town in which the communication was made or received.
(Code 1950, § 18.1-257; 1960, c. 358; 1973, c. 118; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1994, c. 265; 1998, cc. 687, 788; 2001, cc. 644, 653; 2002, cc. 588, 623.)
If any person, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, or harass any person, shall use a computer or computer network to communicate obscene, vulgar, profane, lewd, lascivious, or indecent language, or make any suggestion or proposal of an obscene nature, or threaten any illegal or immoral act, he shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.
(2000, c. 849.)

