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UNIVERSITY PARK, Texas<\/strong> – A Plano man who’s been convicted numerous times<\/a> of stalking female SMU students has been arrested after allegedly making threats against the campus.<\/p>\n SMU stalker threatens campus <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n Ian James Smith is believed to have made threats online against the SMU campus.<\/p>\n The school’s Monday release<\/a> said James, 23, is unaffiliated with their organization and has been arrested in the past for harassing and stalking students.<\/p>\n On Wednesday evening, the school released an update that Smith had been arrested.<\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n The manner of threat against the school was not commented on.\u00a0<\/p>\n What you can do:<\/p>\n Information on SMU cases can be reported anonymously through the Police Department\u2019s Silent Witness Program by calling 214-SMU-2TIP, online at www.smu.edu\/2TIP or through the SMU Aware Safety App.<\/p>\n Eight stalking convictions The backstory:<\/p>\n FOX 4 last reported on Smith in October 2024, when he was accused of again harassing female SMU students.\u00a0<\/p>\n At that time, Smith had been convicted and served time just that year for a similar offense.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> Information in this report came from Southern Methodist University PD.<\/p>\n University Park<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article UNIVERSITY PARK, Texas – A Plano man who’s been convicted numerous times of stalking female SMU students…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":69345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,6082,1596,7290,50,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,48919,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-69344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-county","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-university-park","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114867469275370237","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ian-smith-dallas-co-prior-mugs.jpg\")
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