By Andy Sevilla

A man police say stalked a 28-year-old woman at her Kyle home and her place of employment is in Hays County custody and charged with a third-degree felony.

Antonio Calderon, 40, was arrested July 20 on a felony stalking charge, as well as for failing to appear in court last month on a previous criminal trespass misdemeanor.

In Calderon’s probable cause affidavit used to secure an arrest warrant from Hays County Justice of the Peace Beth Smith, police said the suspect on more than one occasion caused the victim to feel harassed, annoyed, alarmed, abused, tormented, embarrassed or offended. 

According to the affidavit, Calderon stalked the victim at her home and in the parking lot at her job, would call her incessantly and even took flowers to her at work and left them with the receptionist. 

The 28-year-old woman told police she had told Calderon numerous times to leave her alone and to stop contacting her. The victim told police she had never been in a relationship with Calderon, and the two had only briefly been friends in the past, the affidavit said.

In the days leading up to Calderon’s arrest, the victim told police the suspect had been watching her residence — in the Waterleaf neighborhood — from an older-model tan Chevrolet Silverado. The woman said Calderon would park the vehicle and sit in his car near her home, according to the affidavit.

Police were able to find a call for service from one of the victim’s neighbors who on July 19 reported a vehicle as being parked on their street in the far east Kyle neighborhood several times a day with a male inside. The caller was able to provide a license plate number, which police later tracked to Calderon. 

The victim told police Calderon repeatedly called her cell phone, including a time when her battery died and she woke up the next morning to 248 missed calls from the suspect. 

The woman said Calderon showed up at her job in San Marcos on multiple occasions and waited in the parking lot for her to arrive. She said he would also show up later in the day when it was time for her to leave work.

“(The victim) advised she was frightened and alarmed by suspect’s presence at her workplace,” police said in the affidavit. 

Just after 11 a.m. on July 20, police noticed the suspect’s car driving along the 2400 block of Goforth Road where they conducted an investigative stop on the vehicle. 

Police say Calderon said he and the victim had been together for seven months, but after further questioning he changed his story and said the two had never been in a relationship, and only were friends. 

Calderon admitted to going to the victim’s workplace and taking her flowers, parking near her residence on multiple recent occasions, and further conceded that the woman had asked him to stop contacting her, the affidavit said. 

In his apparent defense, Calderon told police that at one point he, too, asked the victim to stop contacting him. He also told police he never exited his vehicle when he would park near the victim’s home, the affidavit said. 

Calderon is being held at the Hays County Jail on a $10,000 bond for the felony stalking charge, and on a $6,000 bond for his failure to appear in court for a previous criminal trespass charge.

Jail records show Calderon has been arrested in Hays County at least 18 times dating back to 2001.