A 3M Co. executive has been charged with stalking a 24-year-old woman and peeping into the windows of her duplex home in Hudson, Wis.
Robert T. Cesena, 48, of Hudson, was charged Monday in St. Croix County Circuit Court with felony stalking and misdemeanor disorderly conduct in connection with allegations that he snooped in the woman's ground-level windows this past weekend.
Cesena was booked into jail Monday and released in lieu of $2,500 bail, and he is scheduled to be back in court on March 29. In the meantime, according to court records, Cesena has been ordered to stay away from the woman.
Telephone messages were left Thursday with Cesena seeking comment on the allegations. A man who answered the phone at 3M headquarters in Maplewood said Cesena could not take calls at work because he is an executive.
"3M has been made aware of the situation and is gathering further information as quickly as possible in order to determine [the] next steps," 3M spokeswoman Jennifer Ehrlich said Wednesday. Ehrlich followed up Thursday and said Cesena is on administrative leave from his job "pending the outcome of the charges."
Cesena has been with 3M since the late 1990s, according to his LinkedIn page, which also says he's been in his current job as global key account vice president since September 2019.
According to the charges, the woman told police that the incidents have been "ongoing and making her very uncomfortable" to the degree that she asked her boyfriend to stay with her overnight.
She shared with an officer exterior home surveillance video from Saturday night that showed a man "sneaking up to her window and getting his face extremely close to her window trying to see through the [closed] blinds," according to the charges.
