Greenwood man charged with stalking after he placed tracking device on car

<p>A Greenwood man is facing a felony-level stalking charge after police say he placed a tracking device under a woman’s car.</p><p>William S. Rollins, 52, is charged with stalking, a Level 6 felony, and invasion of privacy.</p><p>A woman reported to the Greenwood Police Department in August 2019 that she received several threatening text messages from Rollins, who is now her ex-husband, according to a probable cause affidavit filed June 29 in Johnson County Circuit Court. She filed a protective order against Rollins at that time.</p><p>Months later, in December, she reported to police that she observed Rollins’ truck parked across the street from where she worked, court documents said. She then reported in January that Rollins had been sending her emails from a new email address, and she saw his car parked at Dunkin’ Donuts in Greenwood every morning when she drove by.</p><p>By February, she reported to police she thought a GPS had been placed on her car because Rollins showed up everywhere she went. She took her car to a body shop where a black GPS was found underneath the back bumper, according to court documents.</p><p>Greenwood police met with Rollins, and he told the officer he sent the woman emails and text messages over the past several months. When asked about the GPS under her car, Rollins said it was not his initially, but police discovered he owned the same model of GPS that was found under the car, court documents said.</p><p>He later told police he had someone place the GPS under her car, and he had been tracking her on his phone for about two weeks, according to court documents.</p><p>Greenwood police tracked the billing information for the device back to Rollins, and found it had been activated from Feb. 8 to Feb. 22, when it was turned over to the police, court documents said.</p><p>Police arrested Rollins, 1354 Millridge Drive, Tuesday. He was released from the Johnson County jail on $2,200 bond.</p>