ELY- The consequences are beginning to pile up for an Ely man whose apparent obsession with a local woman has now led to multiple charges. Peter Kimball Allen, age 60, is in the St. Louis County Jail after he was re-arrested on Sunday, April 27, for once again violating a protective order granted to the victim because of Allen’s alleged repeated harassment.
Allen was charged last week with violating two protective orders and spent time in the county jail before being released on Friday. But just two days later he was back in lock-up after sending his victim a letter expressing his strong feelings for her.
According to the statement of probable cause, the woman was in tears because “she is worried the defendant will show up at her house one day with the intent to kill her because of this obsession he seems to have with her. She had installed multiple security cameras around the house and has been afraid to leave.”
The probable cause statement notes that the woman has made “ten separate reports to the Ely PD of unwanted contact” from Allen since October. Five of those incidences resulted in further charges against Allen for allegedly violating the protection orders. Both orders prohibit Allen from contacting the victim or going to her residence.
Repeated contacts
On April 23, the woman received eight emails from Allen. According to court records, “One email was a meme image highlighted in yellow saying, ‘I just can’t understand how some people can be okay with themselves knowing that they emotionally destroyed someone who loves them.’ Other emails spoke of the active court orders and how the defendant loves her.”
On April 25, Allen was charged with allegedly violating the protection orders. He was released the same day, under the supervision of a probation officer through Minnesota’s pretrial early release program. The conditions on Allen’s release included abiding by the terms of the two protective orders.
Yet it appears that Allen failed to abide by those terms, after he sent a letter to his victim the following day, expressing his love for her.
Allen was charged on Sunday with felony stalking and two misdemeanors for violating the protection and restraining orders. At a Tuesday hearing on the matter, Assistant St. Louis County Attorney Amber Pederson argued that Allen should not be allowed to participate in the pretrial early release program but should, instead, be subject to a no-bail hold until his sentencing hearing on May 13 in five of Allen’s seven open cases. She pointed out that because of Allen’s continual violation of the protection orders, “victim safety concerns exist … Defendant has a history of domestic abuse offenses with the same victim.”
Judge Bhupesh Pattni revoked the conditional release and removed it as an option for Allen’s open cases. The judge did not remove Allen’s ability to post bail, which is $12,000 for a 2024 drug charge, $3,000 for a protection order violation in November, $5,000 for the April 25 charges, and $40,000 for the April 27 charges.