Man accused of stalking, scaring woman 'to death'

A man is charged with stalking a local woman who, documents say, captured video footage of several instances of unusual behavior near her home and reported being scared to death of him.

Roger J. Brough, born in 1960, charged with felony stalking, pleaded not guilty to the charge Monday in District Court.

Court charging documents say that Feb. 3, a woman reported that her ex-boyfriend, Brough, was coming around her home and messing with things. She said she installed cameras after finding underwear and lingerie and other “random items” in her yard.

The detective was shown video footage of Brough near the home several times, documents say.

Among the instances, footage from Jan. 29 and 30 shows Brough smoking while looking through the woman’s windows. Feb. 7 footage shows Brough dropping off a coffee maker, or something similar, at her home.

Footage from Feb. 9 shows Brough switching a bag of trash from the woman’s trash can with one from the back of his pickup truck. Brough is shown to have come back later that day, moving in and out of the view of the camera. Footage from Feb. 11 shows Brough walking to the backdoor of the woman’s house “only wearing what appears to be a leopard print thong underwear,” documents say.

When the woman was advised to apply for an order of protection, court documents say she was worried about doing that because the last time she did Brough became more aggressive.

Officers received a call from the woman March 5, saying Brough had been by her home, the documents say. Again, Brough was caught on tape, this time taking “no trespassing” signs from the woman’s yard. The investigating officer said Brough was wearing the same clothes he was when he had been released from the Hill County Detention Center under a half hour prior.

Police arrested Brough the day before on a City or Justice court warrant and charges of driving with a revoked or suspended license and without insurance after a woman reported he had been “pointing a laser pointer at her cameras and breaking them.”

Documents say the woman told officers she was scared to death and was having a nervous breakdown.

The woman came to the police department several times over the next few months, court documents say.

Over that time, she showed officers messages Brough had sent her, some of them sexually explicit, via multiple social media outlets. She reported he’d violated his order of protection multiple times. Charging documents say she showed officers several messages, the bulk of them during a two-week span stemming from September to October, Brough had sent her, some of them, again, sexually explicit.

When asked why she didn’t block Brough from the social media accounts, the woman answered that he had threatened to hang himself in the past if she did that.

When talking to an officer about the messages, documents say Brough denied having sent any messages to the woman.

In October, after the woman had reported receiving four packages in the mail from Brough, he was found and asked by an officer why he did that. Files say Brough told the officer that he didn’t know sending her items in the mail was a violation of the order of protection.

Brough was not listed on the jail roster this morning.