…where internet yelling meets the public record

Luke Wenke mailed the following letter to the Honorable John L. Sinatra, Jr. while detained at the Cattaraugus County Jail in Little Valley, New York in October 2023. At the time, Wenke was being detained on multiple federal probation violation charges for allegedly contacting multiple…

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…