Credit: Bucks County Department of Corrections
A plea last week in county court in Dolyestown will give a 23-year-old man accused of sending nude photographs of his ex-girlfriend to hundreds of college students and setting a fire that destroyed several cars and nearly her house in Middletown jail time and probation.
Angelo Capria of Chalfont will face a year jail time and three years probation after he admitted to the crimes in court. Online court records have not yet been updated to reflect the plea and the assistant district attorney handling the case did not return a phone call.
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According to police, Capria stalked his “on and off” ex-girlfriend and eventually vandalized and set fire vehicles at her Teal Drive home.
On Sept. 4, 2011, the Teal Drive family reported the right rear tired of their SUV was punctured and leaking air. A neighbor reported seeing a short white male run from the drive of the Teal Drive home and flee in a green “boxy” vehicle, police said. In court on Thursday, that neighbor said the vehicle appeared to match the dark-colored Kia Soul that Capria owns.
More than a month later, on Oct. 21, 2012, police and fire officials responded to a vehicle fire at the home in the early morning hours. They arrived to find three vehicles on fire and minor damage to the home, Fire Marshal James McGuire told LevittownNow.com previously. The father of the ex-girlfriend said in court that the damage from the fire, which destroyed two cars and damaged another, has cost over $50,000.
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“I saw my Jeep Wrangler exploding in front of my eyes,” the ex-girlfriend said of the fire during a preliminary hearing.
Penndel Police Chief Joseph Sciscio, a recognized expert in computer forensics, analyzed GPS data obtained from Capria’s electronic devices in November and uncovered he had Teal Drive saved. The map, according to police, was listed as “His Work in Progress.”
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According to court filings from earlier this year, several other locations and a photo of a fire were also discovered, police said. Authorities added that Capria had recently visited crime news and government websites relating to police reports several times following the fire.
The ex-girlfriend testified that she believes Capria captured images of her nude during an online chat and later sent them to hundreds of college students at Temple University. Police have said the email was sent in August 2011, shortly after the relationship ended.
According to court papers, the relationship started to go south on Dec. 31, 2010. Capria become upset when his girlfriend did not want to spend New Year’s Eve with him because she was at a female friend’s home, police said. In response, Capria drove around looking for his girlfriend, called her over 100 times, left “obscene” voicemails and told her he was going to dump all her belongings outside, according to police.
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