Serena Williams' Stalker Arrested Outside Her Home

By Christo Varghese Posted May 4th 2011 04:30AM

A man suspected of stalking Serena Williams was arrested outside her house on Monday night.

The Daily Mail is reporting that Patenema Ouedraogo was caught on the grounds of Williams' Florida home.

According to police, Ouedraogo, 40, tried to walk into the tennis player's estate but was stopped by security guards.

When Ouedraogo was identified, police realized that he had been named by Williams as a suspected stalker. Love letters that he had written for Williams were also found on him.

The tennis player was not at her home at the time as she was in New York attending the Met Gala.

Ouedraogo has been charged stalking and cyber-stalking and his bail has been set at $25,000. It is also reported that should he make bail, he would immediately be placed under house arrest.

Last month, Williams went to court to take an injunction out against Ouedraogo. He was well known to the tennis player's security team as a potential stalker and Williams' has said that she is "terrified" of him.

Ouedraogo had previously pretended he was Williams' assistant when she appeared on the Home Shopping Network last month and even got access to her dressing room, before he was identified and escorted out of the premises.

Williams, 29, had taken a temporary restraining order against Ouedraogo. However, as he was never found, it could not be served to him.

Ouedraogo has now been ordered to stay at least 500 feet from Williams.

Tags: Patenema Ouedraogo, serena williams

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Wednesday 04 May

By BTDT

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"A man suspected of stalking Serena Williams was arrested"..............for having incredibly bad taste.

By Zero

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There are plenty of dudes who look just like her.

By sgtmike132

LOL--that's funny.

By mike

thats one sick puppy ! the 1st thing he needs is his eyes checked ! ive been to florida there are 8 million women in that state that make her look sick ! but thats not that hard ! have you ever seen someone who tries so hard to look good ? money wasted ! she will be broke and forgotten soon now that tennis is over !

By Zzzzzzzzzz!

. . . and the reason why anyone in the entire world would be concerned is . . .

By Jim

I wouldn't walk across the street to look at her much less stalk her...gag!!!

By ejkgolf69

I guess there is a match for everyone. This woman is so scary looking this guy must be legally blind.

By k

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You people are all insane. Who cares what your narrow opinion defines as beauty? Some creep was stalking her, and was caught. Good. End of Story. Now go look in the mirror.

By Theresa

I agree with you K well said...They need to take a tripple look in the mirror and stop judging people...

By almasearch

@ k : You are absolutely right. How the previous posters are making this about Ms. Williams "looks" is almost as sick as this stalker. I'm scared to think how they'd feel if this man actually did do harm to Ms. Williams. Pathetic.

By Ed

Why would anyone stalk that !!

Thursday 02 June

By lyn

Ha! Do you think your girl is worth stalking. OOOPS! My Bad! You must have a male friend. Everybody don't like white bones.

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