Taylor Swift stalker suspect arrested — letters sent threatening to 'rape and kill' her

A man accused of stalking Taylor Swift is in federal custody. According to a press release from the Department of Justice, Eric Swarbrick, 26, from Austin, Tex., has been arrested and charged with “interstate stalking” and “sending interstate communications with the intent to threaten.” In January of this year, Big Machine Label Group in Nashville started getting letters, allegedly, from Swarbrick asking the record company’s CEO Scott Borchetta to introduce him to BMLG client Swift. In total, at least 40 letters and emails were sent, with the correspondence becoming “increasingly violent and sexual in nature.”