Man Threatens to Hurt Family If Girl, 15, Doesn't Take Him Back: Police

Police say a Minnesota man out on bail on charges he sexually assaulted a 15-year-old Oak Creek girl has been texting her threatening messages and was stopped by law enforcement just blocks from her house. 

Luke Hamman, 26, already had been charged in October with felony second-degree sexual assault. Court documents say Hamman traveled by plane from northern Wisconsin to the victim’s home in Oak Creek, was snuck into the house, and then engaged in sexual acts with the victim in her bed. They met over the Internet.

A stipulation of his bail in that case was to not have contact with the victim.

New charges say that Hamman has sent the victim several threatening text messages recently saying he was going to get the victim back, and he had a weapon and wouldn’t hurt her, but may hurt her family.

On July 13, a police officer observed and stopped Hamman about one-and-a-half miles from the victim’s home, driving toward her house.

He was charged July 17 with misdemeanor sending a threatening message through a computerized communication system and felony bail jumping.

According to the criminal complaint:

Oak Creek police were notified Hamman had left a Duluth, MN, group home where he was living, had taken a car from his parent’s house and could not be found.

Oak Creek police then spoke with the victim who said she had received some text messages from Hamman that scared her.

Hamman started texting the victim on July 12 and gave her until 11 p.m. on July 13 to give an answer on whether she would get back together with him, court documents read. 

He also told the victim he had a weapon, and that he wouldn’t hurt her, but might hurt her family if she made the wrong decision. He wasn’t going to take no for an answer and wouldn’t stop trying to get her back, the criminal complaint says. 

He asked her for her Facebook account password and demanded she de-friend any male friends on the social network, court documents say. 

Hamman had texted the victim back in June as well. The victim told police her friend tried to help and texted Hamman to stop texting the victim. In response, Hamman sent the friend hundreds of text messages and even left her voicemails. He tried to enlist the help of the friend in getting the victim back, and said if she didn’t help, he would kill her and her family, court documents show. 

At one point, she was receiving up to 300 messages per day from Hamman, and he "communicated that he had a weapon and he would use it on anyone that would get in the way," the criminal complaint reads. 

If convicted, he could face up to six years and three months imprisonment, or $11,000 in fines, or both.