Letter bomber facing more harass charges; Ex-strip club waitress pleads innocent

By SYDNEY SCHWARTZ
The Patriot Ledger

PEMBROKE - Police say a former strip club waitress from Hull who is on probation for harassing a rival for a man’s affection has done it again.

Kimberly Lynn DaSilva, 40, of Berkley Road, pleaded innocent Tuesday in Plymouth District Court to the new charges.

Pembroke police say DaSilva put ads soliciting sex on the Web site Craigslist using the name of a woman who was dating the same Pembroke man that DaSilva was dating at the time. DaSilva is also charged with signing the other woman’s name to a harassing letter sent to the man.

In May 2006, the one-time waitress at Alex’s in Stoughton admitted in federal court to mailing explosives to a college, two strip clubs, a motorcycle club and television and radio stations in a scheme fueled by a failed love affair. All but one of the packages bore a return address meant to implicate another waitress at Alex’s that DaSilva’s then-boyfriend, William Gauss, was interested in romantically.

Pembroke police said they began investigating DaSilva a month after she pleaded guilty in federal court. That’s when a Pembroke woman who was dating the same man as DaSilva - a different man than the one in the federal case - started receiving harassing mail.

This past February, the Pembroke woman began receiving e-mails and phone calls regarding a Craigslist ad soliciting sex, police said. The ads were posted using an e-mail account attached to the name of the woman, who was a real estate broker.

‘‘It was very disconcerting to the woman,’’ Pembroke Police Chief Michael Ohrenberger said. ‘‘The harassment just didn’t seem to stop.’’

Through subpoenas and grand jury testimony, police got information from Craigslist and MSN Hotmail and used it to get a search warrant for DaSilva’s computer. It contained evidence that she had placed the ads and written the letter, court documents say.

Police charged her with three counts of identity fraud and one count of criminal harassment.

The mother of two teenagers, DaSilva is a former waitress at the Foxy Lady in Brockton as well as Alex’s.

She is on probation for five years in the federal case. She admitted in November 2006 to mailing six packages containing bubble-wrapped packets of condoms filled with Drano and gasoline to both strip clubs and to Bridgewater State College, the Outlaws motorcycle club in Taunton, WXKS-FM (KISS 108) disc jockey Matt Siegel and WFXT-TV, the local Fox Broadcasting station.

Investigators eventually determined that DaSilva had been trying to implicate her rival for Gauss’ affections - a 23-year-old strip club waitress from Randolph.

During the 2006 case, prosecutor Suzanne Sullivan told U.S. District Court Judge George A. O’Toole Jr. that DaSilva was being investigated for a crime involving similar charges.

Court documents revealed e-mail messages were sent to Pembroke police regarding an incident allegedly involving DaSilva while her federal case was pending.

‘‘She is repeating the same type of behavior,’’ Sullivan said.

Sydney Schwartz may be reached at sschwartz@ledger.com .

Copyright 2007 The Patriot Ledger
Transmitted Thursday, October 18, 2007

 

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