Former Warren County man accused of 'electronic torture'

Posted at: 02/02/2012 6:38 PM | Updated at: 02/02/2012 6:57 PM
By: Mark Mulholland

GLENS FALLS - Steven Kolnsberg is a 55-year-old tax preparer from Franklin County, but in court Thursday afternoon, Assistant District Attorney Matt Burin called Kolnsberg a "one-man crime wave."

Apparently holding a grudge over a 2010 attempted stalking conviction for trying to lure two 12-year old girls into the woods near his Queensbury home, police say Kolnsberg used the internet to get even.

They say on the very day the one-year-order of protection ended, he began harassing the mother of one of the victims. setting up phony Facebook accounts in her name, and posting obscene pictures to them. But that wasn't it. They say he'd email her constantly from anonymous e-mail addresses, and have things sent to her home----travel brochures, magazines and catalogues, hundreds of pounds of junk mail.

Police say Kolnsberg would send e-mails to the mother, Karen Guiseppe, implying that he knew where her daughter was.

Police say Kolnsberg also targeted those officers involved in his arrest, sending junk mail and a single playing card, a nine of spades, to their wives' at their home addresses. Police say Kolnsberg's e-mail moniker is "copkiller" and he had business cards made that say "the only good cop is a dead cop."

Kolnsberg is charged with ten counts of aggravated harassment. He has not been charged with harassing the families of officers, but police seized his computers Thursday and expect to file more charges.

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