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Gainesville man arrested for elaborate stalking scheme over 19 months

Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Pierce Jevon Robinson-Burgess, 29, has been arrested and charged with aggravated cyberstalking with a credible threat and violating an injunction issued in 2022 that prohibits him from contacting the cyberstalking victim.

The victim reportedly met Robinson-Burgess in a cryptocurrency trading chat group in June 2021, and they became friends and exchanged messages. They had a falling out in August 2021, and Robinson-Burgess allegedly began creating social media accounts under the victim’s name and social media handles and posted personal identifying information about the victim. In October 2021, Robinson-Burgess allegedly began threatening the victim’s life and also threatening to take his own life. The victim asked him to stop communicating with her at that time. However, he allegedly continued to try to contact her with texts and voicemails and continued to create social media profiles under her name.

In March 2022, the victim reported the cyberstalking to the Atlanta Police Department, but Robinson-Burgess allegedly continued to stalk her, causing the victim to travel to Gainesville to get an injunction against him. She was granted a temporary injunction on May 26, 2022, and within hours, Robinson-Burgess allegedly messaged her. The victim reported the violation to Gainesville Police Department, and charges were filed, but Robinson-Burgess’ attorney convinced a judge that he did not need to be arrested.

In November 2022, Robinson-Burgess allegedly sent an email to the victim’s employer, saying that the victim was a racist and that she had posted racist comments online. The email linked to a website that has since been traced to Robinson-Burgess; the website reportedly defames the victim, and Robinson-Burgess has allegedly used it to jeopardize the victim’s livelihood, friendships, and mental health. The website reportedly includes information that the victim shared privately with Robinson-Burgess.

The victim, who now lives in Los Angeles, also believes the Robinson-Burgess has contacted the LA Police Department and made false reports that a gunman is at her residence, causing the police to send a SWAT team to surround her residence in the middle of the night.

Instagram posts that were saved by the victim but later deleted by the author reportedly contain many of the same phrases Robinson-Burgess has used in previous writings, and one message states, “You know I’m gonna kill you right? I don’t care how long it takes. It will happen… The literal reason I am in LA is ONLY because of you. So trust. If your life matters that little please continue.”

The Instagram posts were made in early April, and law enforcement databases show that Robinson-Burgess arrived in California at the end of March. The report notes that his travel to California “creates a credible threat that [Robinson-Burgess] intends to do harm to the [victim], up to death, and has begun acting on these threats.”

Robinson-Burgess is also facing a charge of stalking another victim in 2020. In that case and in the case charging him with violating the temporary injunction, the court recently ordered a mental evaluation to determine his competency to stand trial.

Judge Susan Miller-Jones set bail at $500,000 with an added condition that Robinson-Burgess have no access to a computer or the internet.

Articles about arrests are based on reports from law enforcement agencies. The charges listed are taken from the arrest report and/or court records and are only accusations. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. 

  • Damn bro.. all that sounds exhausting 😴 😪.. maybe put half of that energy into a personality and self care and you wouldn’t have time to harass women.. lil Rogaine wouldn’t hurt either.. wish I had lawyers who would tell GPD not to arrest me.. 🙄.. obviously homie has some type of privilege that went to his head..

    • I wouldn’t go throwing judgment around, especially when you don’t know the person or what they were going through. You never know what is going on in someone’s life until you get the chance to talk to them one on one.

      • Dude shut up. This behavior is unacceptable under any circumstance. Wise up, man up, and shut up.

        • I’m not saying that anything was appropriate about the situation, I’m just saying that it’s unfair to throw stones when you don’t know the person or what brought them to this point. It’s very easy to judge and point fingers when you only have the facts you read in an article. For God’s sake, we are living in a a country where racism and xenophobia has been given a platform to be heard from since the 2016 election. You don’t personally know what drove him over the edge. You don’t have inside information. Commenting on someone’s appearance and making a generalized opinion based off of that and the article is cruel. I’m not saying it’s okay to do things of this nature but to judge someone based off a picture and a life event that doesn’t define who they are is shallow at best. Never judge a book by it’s cover and try to remember that this is a person who is suffering immensely. If he wasn’t ambivalent to what was happening and he wasn’t struggling with his own mental health, he wouldn’t have taken things this far and would have just moved on. Clearly there is something deeper going on beyond your understanding that drove him to this point. He actually in real life was a a very kind, caring person to a fault that lead to his own destruction. If I didn’t see good in him, I wouldn’t have spent the last couple of years trying to help him cope with what had been done to him. I am all about feminism and female empowerment but I also believe in humanism. If you hit someone with your car, you don’t just keep going. You pull over and make sure they are okay and wait for help. Someone took advantage of him in a very horrible way and he was hurt so badly, he couldn’t recover because the person who hurt him never cared enough to make sure he was okay. He was conned by a con artist and now this is where he is. He is my friend and I love him dearly because he helped me when I needed it the most and I plan on supporting him every step of the way.

          • “You do the crime, you do the time”. The victim is not responsible for him. Your excuses for him are not relevant, except in sentencing. To paraphrase Obama, actions have consequences.

          • So Wayne, this all started with the 2016 election? Not sure what that’s all about!
            If you’re a good friend of him then maybe you could prevent him from stalking this woman. Help him get past the mental barrier in his brain and find a new path in life.

          • Dude your rambling response only shows that you need help. Substance over quantity when it comes to words.

          • I’m a close friend. Can you reach out to me via text please? (604) 424-3791.

  • If incel was in need of a portrait, this mugshot foots the bill.

  • These injunctions are real effective. He’ll be out and doing it again. A real loser.

  • “Robinson-Burgess’ attorney convinced a judge that he did not need to be arrested.”
    The judge should put both of them in jail and charge the attorney with aiding an abetting another crime.

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