Lang
7/23/20
A local transient with a history of violating no-contact orders with his ex-girlfriend now faces a felony stalking charge after he allegedly refused to leave her property Tuesday morning.
Iowa City Police were called to the woman’s Taylor Drive residence around 11:45am after she reported that 56-year-old Curtis Seals would not leave. She told police Seals had left three voicemails demanding that she call him. When she didn’t respond, Seals showed up at her house and began knocking on the door. She didn’t answer, so Seals began throwing pebbles at her window. He then sat on her porch, then stood in her driveway.
Arriving police saw Seals two houses down, turning back towards the woman’s residence. When he saw the officers, he turned away.
The woman told police she was afraid of Seals and didn’t know what he would do next. He claimed he was just walking by her house and told the arresting officer he wouldn’t go to the woman’s house again.
Seals has broken a current no-contact order on multiple occasions after a 2014 incident in which he came to the woman’s residence, threatened to “beat” her “ass”, burn the house down and shoot her in the head. A few months later he threatened to kill her and her new boyfriend as they were walking along Taylor Drive. He pleaded guilty to Domestic Abuse and 1st Degree Harassment charges after the second incident and spent 60 days in jail.
After multiple no-contact order violations, Seals was eventually charged with felony Stalking in 2017…a charge which could have led to up to five years in prison. Court records show that charge was pleaded down to Trespassing, and Seals was given credit for time served.
Seals has also violated the order while visiting the woman at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. He now faces a new Stalking charge as well as a no-contact order violation. If convicted, he again faces a maximum of five years in prison.