Bradford deputies arrested a 32-year-old Lawtey man after they said he followed a woman to Orange Park and tracked her with an Apple air tag.
Chase Stephen Beverly was arrested on February 2.
According to an arrest report, the victim said she went with her co-workers to a Clay County bowling alley and saw the defendant at the bar. She left the facility due to the defendant’s presence, but the 32-year-old momentarily blocked her vehicle from leaving the parking lot.
She and her co-workers then proceeded to Buffalo Wild Wings near the Orange Park Mall, and the victim saw Beverly parked in the mall’s parking lot with the lights on his motorcycle turned off.
She then received a notification that an air tag was near her phone, and she discovered the tracking device in her vehicle’s glove box.
The victim told deputies she and Beverly have never been in a romantic relationship and that she has told the defendant she does not want to be in a relationship with him.
Beverly admitted to deputies that he put the air tag in the woman’s car, claiming that he worked on the vehicle and put the tracking device in it in case someone stole it in the future.
