A Leesburg man was arrested for stalking after a deputy found a tracker on the vehicle of the mother of his daughter.
A deputy responded to the Leesburg Police Department in reference to a stalking report filed by the mother of 42-year-old Lloyd Francis Nelson’s infant daughter at 8:20 p.m. Monday, according to an arrest report from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office.
The complainant advised that she had been calling law enforcement over the past several nights regarding ongoing issues with Nelson. He had been tracking her truck and gave the deputy text messages showing he knew her location despite her not telling him. She added that there was an active no-victim-contact order against him, which she indicated was the second such order, the report said.
She had been communicating with Nelson due to custody exchanges involving their infant daughter. Nelson had called her about 40 times while she was working that day, and she provided a voice recording where he stated, “When I get out, you’ll end your life.” She also referenced a separate video recording from a monitored parenting app where he threatened to kill her, the report said.
The complainant stated she had five witnesses who confirmed that Nelson placed a tracking device on her vehicle. They told her the tracker was a magnetic device under the rear bumper, the report said.
A deputy then located a white Galaxy Smart Tag tracking device attached magnetically under the bumper. The complainant confirmed this was the tracker Nelson had been using to monitor her location. She stated he had been texting her daily with her exact locations, including another date when he asked why she was at Walmart after she had gotten gas there without telling him, the report said.
The complainant was still talking to law enforcement when Nelson called her through a monitored app, which a deputy recorded. Nelson asked where his daughter was and questioned why the complainant was at the LPD. She stated she was waiting to meet someone for money, the report said.
Nelson asked if she was bringing their child around another man and stated he knew she was there, the report said. Shortly after this call, he sent text messages including threats. One message read, “I’m going to show you what a…convict is.”
The complainant continued, describing another incident from July 4. Nelson removed the license tag from her truck while she was downtown in Tavares at an ice cream shop, which was seen by a witness. He also broke the door handle on her truck, though it was registered to the father of her older child, and she was in the process of obtaining the title, the report said.
She described how Nelson had been stalking and tracking her for months, showing up at every location she visited. He also threatened to contact her employer and had been messaging people at their residence, which she characterized as harassment, the report said.
The complainant subsequently provided a court-ordered parenting plan showing she was required to exchange custody of their daughter. The custody agreement was established about two months prior after a no-victim-contact order had been put in place following incidents in February and March. She stated Nelson violated the original order, which was modified to allow court proceedings for the custody agreement, but then violated it again, resulting in a misdemeanor charge and a new order prohibiting any contact, the report said.
The complainant wanted full custody of their daughter and was concerned for her safety, saying Nelson would kill her one day. She had been present during Nelson’s custody time to supervise visits because she did not trust him alone with their daughter. He was using drugs and had stolen money from her Cash App account. She had video evidence of this on her tablet at home, the report said.
Nelson was ultimately arrested at his home on Colonial Street in Leesburg that night. He was charged with aggravated stalking after injunction (domestic) and violation of pretrial condition for domestic violence. He was booked at the Lake County Jail without bond.