…where internet yelling meets the public record

In April 2022, Luke Wenke pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of cyberstalking. In exchange for his guilty plea, the prosecution dismissed a charge of making interstate threats and recommended an 18-month prison sentence followed by three years of supervised release. USA v.…

On March 15th, 2022, Luke Wenke was formally indicted on federal charges of cyberstalking and making interstate threats. Wenke was accused of stalking, harassing, and threatening a Minnesota-based criminal defense attorney (“Victim 1”), who was representing Wenke’s romantic obsession, Ryan (also called Benjamin), in a…

In the email below, Luke Wenke claims that he persuaded a local woman to vouch that she had seen me entering Wenke’s Olean traphouse and breaking things. This is impossible, because I haven’t been to Olean in many years, including during the time frame when…