Watertown police have arrested a 60-year-old Naugatuck man who is accused of following an 18-year-old girl in July and they have charged him with stalking.
Police arrested Gerald Dalessio, of Naugatuck, on Monday and charged him with breach of peace in the second degree and stalking in the third degree in connection with an investigation that started on July 11.
The victim, an 18-year-old girl, told police a suspicious man was following her. While she pumped gas at the Shell station on Straits Turnpike, a stranger, later identified as Dalessio, pulled into the gas station, stopped in front of her vehicle and gestured for her to come over to him, police said.
The victim locked herself in her vehicle and then left the station.
Police said Dalessio never got out of his vehicle for gas but followed the victim out onto Straits Turnpike into Middlebury and followed her on Interstate 84 for about five minutes when she lost sight of him.
