Anacortes woman accused of felony stalking, cyber harassment

There's another big case that you've been working on, you've been involved with, too. You know, I'll let you tell as much as you want, but tell me about this other, this case that you've been working on. Yeah, so there is a woman named Ingrid Johnson from Anacortes, and she was charged last September with felony stalking and felony harassment. You're talking about a crime that carries a prison sentence of up to 10 years. She had been harassing, following, putting tracking devices, threatening to kill her ex-husband for months, violating protection orders repeatedly over and over again. So we aired her for Seattle police as a fugitive on her felony warrant. When somebody is charged with a crime, a bail amount is set. In this case, it was a $150,000 bail, meaning once she got caught, she would automatically be in jail and $150,000 bail. So you'll hear me a lot of times say there's a one hundred fifty thousand dollar warrant for somebody's arrest. It doesn't mean that's the reward. It means that's what their bail has set. And and as I'm featuring her and airing her on the news, on the spotlight, on my Facebook page, she decides to email me and just tear into me also, which she has also done to the court repeatedly. And she's been cited by judges, by courts for doing this, sending hundreds and hundreds of emails, usually in the middle of the night. in my case she calls me Jason Rose I don't know who Jason Rose is uh she said she's gonna said you're gonna sue me so much she's gonna steal my ice trays i i replied that i don't have ice trays we have an automatic ice maker so thank goodness she's not gonna get my ice trays and that she hoped that i got run over by a bus i mean this just you know and this is just the kind of things she says to people she says much worse things to prosecutors to judges to people involved in the case. You can imagine what is in the court documents that I can't even say publicly about the things she has sent to her ex. It all stems, AJ, from some mental health problems the courts believe. She does not have custody of their child. She lost custody and she was given visitation rights. Now, that's a lengthy process. Anybody who has ever been through it knows it takes a lot to take a mother's rights away in this state. But if the court finds that it's in the best interest of the child they'll do that and they did that with Ingrid and they gave her visitation rights with her son which she didn't even use she never even showed up except like in that picture you see where she's looking in the window well that's when Seattle detectives say she was going to kidnap her son so this is one of those cases where they're very worried we're going to have an Amber Alert where she goes in and kills her ex and kidnaps her son and so the judges are very very worried about that in fact today in court she was supposed to show up because she turned out to be arrested by deputies in Skagit County two weeks ago but before she could be transferred to King County her parents showed up and they put up their house for her $150,000 bail it's the first time I've ever seen this where a suspect is arrested in another county and they're not shipped to the county where they're wanted they were she was not brought to King County to go to court her parents showed up they put up their house as collateral for the bail and that's the house where she was hiding where she was arrested so she got to go home she was ordered to show up today for her arraignment three detectives the victim uh his family their supporters the victim's advocates the judge the prosecutor the defense they're all there Ingrid doesn't show up she says i have norovirus and i can't make it well judge Nelson Lee was having none of that so take a look at what he said in court today well this is the video this is not the actual soundbite from court this is just a video so if you guys can get the soundbite um that Alan was going to cue up for us we can play that right here give me a second to David to get the video up so um here is the actual judge this is judge as you mentioned Nelson KH Lee and this is um what we heard from them in court today if not the ultimate risk um and a community as well the message if you will that she sent regarding the norovirus i will say i find completely lacking in all credibility um it's basically a message a text exchange with a registered nurse online where she describes general symptoms and then asks what am i in for flu norovirus i'm not very sick very often. And then the RN responds, well, it could have been norovirus, and then goes on to offer some opinions. That is hardly, as she describes it, a clear indication that she is ill and cannot make it. I think there's a long history of her defiant of court orders, her clear intent to avoid being held accountable or to answer for the charges against her. So frankly, I don't think 300,000 is sufficient. So defense, my inclination is to order bail in the amount of 500,000. I was going to go up as high as 1 million because this needs to stop. I have grave concerns for the victim. Her escalating behavior, frankly, puts me in grave concern that she may act out her threats and cause the victim physical harm, if not something worse. Yeah. So Judge Nelson Lee there, a.j very very frustrated because this has just continued to delay things um so he issued a five hundred thousand dollar warrant for her arrest so again if she gets caught her bail then is increased to five hundred thousand dollars you heard him say he was thinking about increasing it to a million dollars now i don't know the value of her parents house but he did tell her defense attorney that she can request a court hearing to get that warrant quashed in about a week if ingrid is willing to show up um and so uh they're going to talk to the defense attorney says she's going to try to talk to her i expect a flurry of emails to go out to everybody involved the detectives me the judge the court the prosecutor the prosecutor said he's heard from her hundreds and hundreds of times she uses very defamatory language she says really rude and cruel things she makes threats um and everybody agrees that what she needs is some mental evaluation and some mental health treatment because normal people just don't act like this aj and they just want the best for her but you can see judge lee is also very concerned because the victim his son his girlfriend they are all living in terrible fear no it is it's a scary situation and what's so unique i know we talked about it but this person is now naming you who is not involved in their lives at all so just kind of the the the range of these threats that are being made um, don't stop just with people that are connected to this, um, this woman. Yeah. And it's anybody, anybody that crosses her radar, she files these bogus claims, um, in court. She does it from her computer. Even judge Lee was very baffled about, even while she's been on the run, she's been filing hundreds and hundreds of documents. The courts have cited her. They've, they've, there's been all kinds of rulings just for that stuff alone because of, because of the threats. Um, and kudos to the Skagit County Sheriff's deputies. I think Semaacortes police might've helped them. They actually, they actually went their proactive team actually went they got a warrant for the house where she was staying they were there was a way they knew she was there i don't want to give away their secrets but there was a way they knew she was there hiding while they're outside AJ she calls 9-1-1 and threatens to kill herself while the deputies are outside there to arrest her on a legal warrant she just does not want for this case she does not see that she's done anything wrong despite um the countless times she's issued these threats she's shown up at the victim's house as You can see looking in the window. So the simple fact she can't see right from wrong, that's what everybody's so concerned about. And so you can see the writing on the wall. We don't want to be one of those, oh, well, we all saw it coming, and there it happened, right? But what was kind of shocking was that, and even to the Seattle detective, he had never seen this, right? We're not newbies. We've all been around for decades. I had never seen this where a suspect gets arrested in another county and then isn't brought to the county where they've been wanted for coming up on a year. It's just sort of shocking. So if you see Ingrid, Crimestoppers will pay you a cash reward of up to $1,000. She can submit a tip online. We know where she is. It's just a question of are they going to go get her again or is it going to take some time? I think they're going to need to go with a lot of resources. They're going to need people that can deal, you know, mental health kind of stuff and just do it very carefully because she needs more than just handcuffs. She needs somebody that can talk to her, that can explain things to her because she's not just going to turn herself in. I don't see any world where that happens, but I've been surprised before. Fox 13's David Rose, two big stories. And again, you hear mentioned Crime Stoppers, the impact that, you know, David's involvement with this investigation, helping with the first one, Cameron Rowley and our viewers providing information to help. You can get involved. You can be a part of, you know, helping this community stay safe. David, appreciate you. Thanks, AJ. Jay, I love this to be able to go into the detail because there's always so much more that goes into this than just, you know, the two minutes we put on television. So, right. No. Yeah. And I appreciate you always making time and you always have these stories and we get to hear the deets. This is probably, you wouldn't get to hear the impacts in the ice cube tray threats and everything else that goes into it. I was going to show up at her house with some ice cube trays if they didn't go get her. Well, if you do that, make sure you record it. We'll put that on next week too. You got it, bud. All right.