Temecula gallery owner pleads guilty to federal cyberstalking charges

TEMECULA - The owner of a Riverside County art gallery pleaded guilty today in Los Angeles to federal stalking charges for creating disparaging websites targeting an art publisher and sending threatening messages demanding money to take them down.

Jason White, owner of White Galleries at 41493 Margarita Road in Temecula, entered his plea to two counts of stalking, carrying a potential penalty of 10 years in federal prison.

U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson set June 9 for sentencing.

White, 43, was arrested Feb. 12 after a six-month campaign of electronic and telephonic harassment of art wo...