A Leesburg woman was arrested on stalking charges for allegedly harassing the ex-wife of her boyfriend for months post-divorce.
A deputy met with the ex-wife of 37-year-old Caitlyn Victoria Dotterweich’s alleged “boyfriend” around 7:30 p.m. Thursday, according to an arrest report from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office. She wanted to disclose incidents of harassing communications and stalking from that day.
She began by saying Dotterweich had actually been harassing her since Feb. 2025, when the ex-wife filed for divorce. The harassment that followed in the months since included numerous text messages, phone calls and emails. When she blocked Dotterweich’s number, emails started coming in instead, the report said.
The divorce was finalized on Aug. 14, 2025, but the harassment continued in on-and-off patterns, typically when Dotterweich and the ex-husband had relationship conflicts. Her first example came from Nov. 2025 when Dotterweich sent explicit nude photos of the ex-wife over email. These were private photos she had never sent to Dotterweich, meaning she should not have had them, the report said.
One of the emailed photos showed Dotterweich holding a phone, presumably belonging to the ex-husband, and taking a picture of the nude image. She re-sent these photos on Thursday. In fact, she sent well over 100 emails throughout that day using two email addresses, the report said.
The ex-wife repeatedly told Dotterweich to stop contacting her, but she kept sending emails. She also started copying her business email address to ensure the messages would not go to spam, the report said.
The incident continued on Thursday after the ex-wife ate lunch at her mother’s house in Leesburg. She had dropped one of her daughters off at a friend’s place and was on County Road 44 when she got another email from Dotterweich accusing her of being at the ex-husband’s parents’ house. She then looked into her rearview mirror to see what looked like Dotterweich’s silver Hyundai following her, the report said.
The ex-wife asked her older daughter, who was still with her in the vehicle, to photograph the car. She continued driving until she pulled into an open area near a power facility. Dotterweich stopped in the middle of the road, and the ex-wife rolled her window down to ask why she was following her, the report said.
Dotterweich responded by asking why she was going to “her boyfriend’s” house. The ex-wife simply took a photo of the situation, told her to stop following and drove to her own residence. However, Dotterweich continued to follow and stopped at the end of the ex-wife’s driveway, the report said.
When confronted again, Dotterweich partially rolled down her window and started to record the ex-wife, claiming she was being stalked. The ex-wife was on FaceTime with her current partner at the moment, and he told her not to engage. So, she went into her residence, and when she returned to check, Dotterweich was gone, the report said.
The ex-wife showed law enforcement an email from Dotterweich sent at 1:43 p.m. Thursday, which stated, “I’ll be waiting for you.” She also said she wanted to “whoop” her. This threat was sent before she started following the ex-wife. She had made multiple threats to physically assault the ex-wife if they saw each other, all of which were prior to this incident, the report said.
The ex-wife added that she was concerned about Dotterweich somehow tracking her location. She stated she had no romantic or physical contact with her ex-husband since May 2025 and no sexual contact since before filing for divorce in Feb. 2025. She also believed Dotterweich had filed multiple injunctions against the ex-husband but never appeared for court hearings, the report said.
Dotterweich was ultimately arrested at her home on Grove Street in Leesburg around 9:25 p.m. Thursday. The Maryland native was charged with aggravated stalking, cyberstalking and sexual cyberstalking, and she was released from Lake County Jail after posting $11,000 bond.