OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - In Nebraska, it’s not illegal to put a tracking device on someone’s car without their knowledge. But an electronic stalker is going to prison because the victims help build a case.

She moved to hide, but stalking victim Alicia Hoerman still lived in fear.

“Walking out the door and being afraid of looking around and seeing where he’s at. If he’s hiding somewhere,” she said.

Alicia’s ex-husband hid tracking devices on her vehicle that a Bellevue police detective took into evidence.

Michael Hoerman faced justice not for planting the devices but because the victim and her daughter gave the prosecutor evidence on how he used trackers.

“Tracking a person isn’t itself illegal. There has to be more, there has to be the threat to intimidate, a threat to terrorize,” said Ra

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