Man Gets 1 Year Under New ‘Stalking’ Law
In the first sentencing under the state’s new felony “stalking” law, a Calabasas man on Thursday was ordered jailed for one year for repeatedly harassing and threatening his ex-girlfriend.
Mark Bleakley, 30, a burly former car wash manager with a decade-long record of six assault, drug and weapons charges, also was ordered by a Van Nuys Superior Court judge to serve six months in a locked drug rehabilitation center. The new law applies to those who repeatedly threaten or vandalize the property of a victim and violate a civil court order to stop the harassment.
Bleakly’s former girlfriend, Leslie Wein, 26, of Encino, said Bleakley began to terrorize her shortly after she broke off their two-year relationship in April. She filed 13 police reports in the case.
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