Jeannette man charged with making nearly 400 harassing calls to ex-girlfriend

A Jeannette man recently paroled after serving time for assaulting his former girlfriend now is charged with making nearly 400 harassing phone calls to the woman, Greensburg police said.

Kevin M. Reese, 30, was charged with harassment and harassment by communication. The calls began Monday and ended early Wednesday after the woman contacted police, according to court documents.

She called the police department just before 1 a.m. Wednesday complaining that Reese “had been contacting her repeatedly over the past several days,” Patrolman Adam Gogets reported.

“Reese has sent her numerous texts and called her at all hours of the day from (nine) different telephone numbers,” Gogets said in court documents.

Her phone log showed she had received 391 calls from Reese between Monday and Wednesday, Gogets said.

The investigation revealed Reese was using a special app installed on his cellphone that made it appear the calls were coming from other numbers, Gogets said.

“In some of the text conversations, Reese admits to being the contact,” Gogets wrote in court documents. The woman told police, during many of the calls, she “told Reese to stop contacting her to no avail.”

When Gogets contacted Reese by phone, Reese complained that he had attempted to “civilly speak to her… but she has been ignoring him,” the officer reported. Gogets said Reese admitted that he used the app to make many of the calls.

“He was advised to cease all contact with (the woman),” Gogets said in court documents.

Reese was paroled Jan. 4 from the county jail after he pleaded guilty to the strangulation and assault of the woman stemming from a September attack at his former Eastmont Estates apartment in Greensburg, where police said he injured the woman and threatened the couple’s 1-year-old child.

Reese pleaded guilty Dec. 16 to a felony strangulation count for the September incident and one misdemeanor offense of simple assault in connection with a separate case filed in November 2019 involving the same woman.

Reese could not be reached for comment. He does not have an attorney listed in court documents on the new complaints. He was served with the charges via summons.

A preliminary hearing on the harassment charges is tentatively scheduled April 4.