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, at the time, was representing Wenke’s romantic obsession, Ryan (also called Benjamin), in a federal terrorism case.

According to a criminal complaint, Luke Wenke began harassing and stalking Victim 1 in 2020 because he felt that the victim had done an inadequate job of representing Ryan in criminal court. Wenke was reportedly upset because Ryan had not yet been released from jail/prison, and it seemed as though he was becoming increasingly agitated by his lack of access to Ryan by the day.

While I can’t speak for Ryan (I’ve never met him, contrary to Luke Wenke’s claims), all signs indicate that he simply wasn’t interested in a friendship or anything more with Wenke. In a manner that one court expert would later describe as symptomatic of erotomania (a condition characterized by romantic delusions), Wenke refused to believe this, and instead convinced himself that outside forces were keeping him and Ryan apart. And, as reflected by the document below, he scored himself a world of problems for it.