She told from the very start she just wanted to be friends, and the first fucking thing he does is go on Facebook and post he's in a relationship with a model. When she got with her bf, he acted like she was cheating on him, and she had to reiterate firmly they were friends, nothing more so he had no business being jealous. Naturally, Russ being Russ, he jumped right over her established boundaries and started trashing her chad bf who was actually named Chad. He got involved and told him to knock it off, but it backfired and Russ escalated. Erika told him to leave her alone, and he did not. After she blocked him, he used alts to harass her. He stopped for about a month after she threatened to get the police involved, then bothered her again to see if she changed her mind.
That's when she filed a police report (as I understand the timeline of events). I'm actually shocked Orem PD took it seriously, and I suspect this is where Skordas got involved. He probably gave them enough evidence to show that Russ would escalate further if not stopped. I suspect his lovely screed about why hookers should be legal was linked to show his rather low opinion of women. That's probably where he got the idea that he was only prosecuted because he's pro-decriminalization. I know his Taylor Swift book got mentioned too, so he might as well say he got prosecuted because he's a songwriter. Taken together, they show that A) he hates women, especially women who tell him no and B) he's extremely delusional and seriously expects the world to conform to his wishes simply because he said so.