PBSO: Boca Man Sent 1,000+ Threats to Wellington Woman Before Arrest

BOCA RATON, FL (Boca Post) (Copyright © 2025) — Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested 22-year-old Jacob Swickle of Boca Raton this week after a long string of threats and late-night calls aimed at his ex-girlfriend finally pushed the case into the hands of PBSO’s Targeted Violence Unit.

The charges — aggravated stalking, written threats to kill, unlawful use of a communication device — all tie back to what detectives say was a steady climb in harassment that started months ago and didn’t let up.

Deputies first went out to the woman’s place on Aster Avenue in Wellington on Dec. 8, a quiet street at that hour, where she told them the calls kept coming from blocked numbers and social-media accounts she didn’t recognize. She shares a young child with him, but said he hasn’t really been around in almost two years. By then she’d already counted more than 20 calls from the night before, although detectives later wrote it may actually be more than a thousand attempts in just a week.

She showed them screenshots — threats, mostly — some newer, some she’d saved from earlier run-ins. One message read, “I am gonna kill you,” and others went further, talking about killing her and himself. Detectives said she had to grab screenshots quickly since he “unsends” messages as soon as she sees them.

The affidavit lays out older episodes too. Back on Oct. 19, she said an “Unknown” caller left a voicemail saying he was coming to end her life. A second call minutes later warned he was on his way to the house “with my shotgun.” She told deputies she recognized his voice. Even when the number was masked, she said she knew.

Then there was Oct. 25, which detectives described as a bad afternoon that turned into a worse evening. After an argument over the phone, she received a written threat — “Gonna fuckin kill you.” He showed up at a restaurant afterward, blocked her car with his truck, followed her home down Forest Hill and into the neighborhood, and got out several times to pound on her windows. Family members saw enough to call deputies.

There were other moments too. Knocking at her bedroom window in the early morning. Slow drive-bys when she was inside with the child. The sort of things that don’t show up cleanly in a report but still make people nervous.

During a recorded interview on Dec. 9, she told a PBSO detective that he still calls 20 times a day or more, mixed in with threats aimed at her grandmother, and that she’s certain he still has access to firearms at his father’s place. She also confirmed the number tied to some of the messages belongs to him. Detectives said T-Mobile confirmed it.

Court records show he faced a judge the next morning. Bond came out to $25,000 on the written-threats charge, another $25,000 on aggravated stalking, plus $10,000 for the communication-device count. The judge ordered him to surrender any firearms and all weapons to PBSO within 24 hours of release, no contact with the victim, none at all. A few hearings are already set for January.

Detectives wrote that the whole pattern — the calls, messages, window knocks, drive-bys, masked numbers, the rest — added up to probable cause for all three charges. They said he ignored repeated directions to leave her alone, but continued anyway, sometimes showing up in person, sometimes hiding behind spoofed numbers or new accounts.