A stalker has turn into the stalked.
The Bay Space ‘racist Karen’ was arrested Wednesday after automated license plate cameras recognized her car — hours after she drove round and berated an harmless San Jose father strolling together with his youngster.
The suspect, who the California Put up recognized as 47-year-old Lindsay Hansen from San Jose, was nabbed by San Jose cops and booked within the Santa Clara County Essential Jail on suspicion of a number of crimes, together with stalking and hate crimes.
Automated license plate cameras, which police use to determine and observe automobiles however have drawn privateness considerations, helped cops determine Hansen’s car, police mentioned. Her license plate is seen within the viral video.
Her bail is listed at $10,000, and no courtroom date was listed, based on jail information.
The San Jose Police Division introduced Thursday that officers arrested Hansen in reference to the encounter involving the San Jose father, wherein police mentioned she made “discriminatory remarks at them,” and one other incident at a San Jose highschool. Police additionally mentioned she was linked to a “sequence of different incidents that occurred within the metropolis of San Jose.”
“SJPD Assaults Unit Detectives started a complete investigation into all reported incidents and subsequently situated and arrested the suspect within the metropolis of San Jose. She was booked into Santa Clara County Essential Jail for a number of crimes, together with stalking and hate crimes,” police wrote.
“The San Jose Police Division is conscious of the allegations circulating on-line and we stay dedicated to completely investigating any studies of crime victimizing our neighborhood,” the division added.
Hansen, who’s a mom, had made a sequence of weird claims on social media. She posted a suggestion that Pope Leo XIV is Devil, quite a few posts in regards to the Epstein information, varied antisemitic posts, and a submit saying the delivery of her youngster in 2020 kicked off the 7-year tribulation, or the tip occasions.
She additionally posted courtroom paperwork associated to her previous psychiatric therapy, which included an involuntary dedication Telecare Heritage Psychiatric Well being Facility underneath a 5250 maintain in 2022.
In a declaration and petition for dedication of capability to refuse consent to remedy filed by Bay Space psychiatrist Dr. Shellie Kahane in Might 2022, the physician wrote that Hansen confirmed signs per bipolar dysfunction and was experiencing a manic episode with “psychotic options.”
Her signs included delusions, auditory hallucinations, and paranoia, the physician wrote.
Kahane wrote that Hansen didn’t consider something was unsuitable along with her or that she wanted remedy. The physician mentioned Hansen “believes it’s her job ‘to drive round and ID pedophiles’ and desires to proceed to take action,” based on the submitting. The submitting mentioned she had been prescribed Invega, an antipsychotic remedy.
Hansen’s antics had been revealed after a viral video was posted of her interplay with the San Jose father and his youngster.
Within the video, Hansen may be heard ranting on the pair by her passenger-side window, claiming she labored with federal authorities and accusing the daddy of intercourse trafficking his youngster.
“I’m recording you too. I work with the feds. Have day,” she says within the footage.
“I’m simply ensuring that you just’re not intercourse trafficking this poor little woman who’s very sad to be with you and doesn’t appear like you,” the girl says.
“That’s a white little woman and you’re a man of colour. So I consider you might be both shopping for or promoting or trafficking this youngster.”
The video poster described himself as brown and his daughter as half-white, and mentioned the girl had harassed them a number of occasions of their neighborhood.
Police mentioned Thursday that the investigation remains to be ongoing.
Anybody with data relating to these circumstances is requested to contact SJPD Assaults Unit Detectives at (408) 277-4161.
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