Kennewick man is accused of threatening 2 other women before his cyberstalking arrest
A 23-year-old man recently arrested for stalking a woman allegedly filmed, messaged and threatened two other women.
Alexis Castro Tapia of Kennewick was arrested on Feb. 11 after sending a series of text messages to the woman, some sexual in nature. She called police after being sent a video of her and her child getting into a car.
As police were investigating the accusation, they learned there were already two existing court orders aimed at stopping Casto Tapia from stalking women.
The Tri-City Herald obtained the petitions for those protection orders and they show a pattern where Castro Tapia allegedly recorded both women, propositioned them and threatened to rape them. The court documents say he twice attempted to attack one woman, but she was able to get away.
He has not faced criminal charges in either of the cases or for violating the protection orders.
The first protection order, requested in 2023, said Castro Tapia spied on a woman and took advantage of times when he knew she was alone to go to her house and harass her. He also would show up at where she worked when he was intoxicated.
This escalated to allegedly trying to rape the woman at her workplace. She was able to escape by pushing the man away and running to a place where she could lock the door.
Less than a week later, he came to the woman’s house. They struggled as he tried to get through the door.
“When I see him around town, I am scared,” the woman wrote. “I told my managers about the situation. ... They set me up with a partner at work because I am still very scared, he will show up again.”
Court Commissioner Andrew Howell agreed to issue the protection order, and it was renewed in 2024.
A co-worker of the first woman said Castro Tapia became fixated on her as well, said a protection order application filed in November 2024. That woman didn’t know who Castro Tapia was before she started getting Facebook messages from him.
The messages included a video taken of her from behind along with his comments, court documents said. When she blocked the account, the messages started coming from a new account.
Castro Tapia started filming the woman at work and sent the messages to her TikTok account. He also told the woman he “wanted to rape” her, said the order.
“I blocked him again and in that same moment, he sent my 11-year-old daughter a message telling her to tell me, ‘Hi,’ and that he wanted to ‘f--k me’ and do more things.”
After talking to her co-worker, she discovered who was sending the messages.
“I was very confused because I did not know Alexis well and could not understand why he was targeting me,” she said in the petition for the protection order. “I am truly afraid that Alexis will hurt my children or myself if this order is not granted.”
A protection order was issued on Dec. 19.