Convicted harasser accused of targeting old, new victims, including judge

Agnieszka Ciochon-Newton, who was sentenced to six years in prison for mercilessly harassing two people she believed had wronged her, as well as other crimes, wasted no time when her sentence ended to launch fresh attacks on victims new and old, including the judge who convicted her, court documents allege.

The 58-year-old former nurse was arrested last month after Winnipeg police “became aware that (Ciochon-Newton) was engaging in aggressive and harassing behaviours again, starting almost immediately upon the expiry of her parole conditions” on May 13, Det. Sgt Kylie Case wrote in search warrant documents obtained by the Free Press.

Ciochon-Newton is charged with seven counts of criminal harassment, two counts of uttering threats and one count each of fraud, breaking and entering, attempting to obstruct justice, intimidation of a justice official, mischief and defamatory libel. She remains in custody.

Search warrant documents say provincial court Judge Keith Eyrikson learned in late August that Ciochon-Newton had emailed CBC Manitoba days earlier and threatened him.

“When the judge sentenced me and the newspaper covered me it was all a lie,” Ciochon-Newton allegedly wrote. “But my judge… did not give a shit. He maybe (sic) immune in the court of law, but he will never be immune in the street law. I meat (sic) enough people in prison to sunk (sic) the ship of Judge erikson (sic).”

In a second email sent to police three days earlier, Ciochon-Newton allegedly wrote: “But there is karma and judge Erickson (sic) will get his.”

Eyrikson, the search warrant said, “took these comments as clear and present threats to his safety and well-being.”

Court documents allege Ciochon-Newton’s first victim was her parole officer, whom she continued to call after her parole expired “at all times of the day.” She ignored repeated requests to stop.

“(Ciochon-Newton) escalated when she sent flowers to (the parole officer’s office),” triggering the involvement of supervisors and security staff to “stop the unwanted communications.”

The parole officer went on stress leave as a result of the harassment and was still off work as of Sept. 1, the date the search warrant application was filed in provincial court.

Ciochon-Newton, court documents allege, made repeated calls to the Winnipeg Police Service’s professional standards unit in which she “slandered” several named police officers and government officials and tried to push police to “initiate investigations based on false allegations.”

Ciochon-Newton repeatedly referenced her two prior victims – a former nursing supervisor and a firefighter who had rejected her romantic overtures. She claimed the former had lied to police and the latter had property that belonged to her.

At her sentencing in September 2021, court heard Ciochon-Newton delivered a barrage of vitriol-filled text messages to the firefighter in October 2019 after she arrived at his house and saw him sitting at his dining room table with his girlfriend.

Ciochon-Newton opened an account on the Ashley Madison dating website and a week later directed two men to the victim’s house with the expectation they would meet a woman for an “intimate encounter.”

Following her release from prison, Ciochon-Newton learned the man was selling his home and in June contacted a real estate agent under a friend’s name and made arrangements to see the house, court documents allege.

Ciochon-Newton, her face obscured by a wide-brimmed hat, arrived for the viewing with an older man and immediately asked the real estate agent to ensure the victim was not present while they were in the house.

A short time later, the couple sent the real estate agent an email claiming the house was beset with 43 building code violations and told him to stop showing it.

Security video at the house showed the woman alleged to be Ciochon-Newton walking with a cane and having “mobility issues.”

“When the judge sentenced me and the newspaper covered me it was all a lie.”

“It is… believed the cane may be a prop as (Ciochon-Newton’s) parole officer never saw her use a cane or have mobility issues,” court documents say.

Ciochon-Newton allegedly tried to enlist her ex-husband — a U.S. university professor she was previously convicted of assaulting — to assist in her covert attack on the victim, telling him: “FIND ALL THE VIOLATION BERRY (sic) THAT ASSHOLE TO THE GROUND, CALL 311 IN WINNIPEG AND GO TO TOWN.”

In a followup email, Ciochon-Newton told the man: “I want that house off the market with violation.” In the same email, she urged the man to harass her former nursing supervisor, telling him to make her “scared shitless I don’t care how you do it.”

Ciochon-Newton had married the man in 2001 and they divorced 10 years later. The man and Ciochon-Newton’s adult daughter are both estranged from her and have virtually eliminated their social media/online presences to remain hidden from her, court documents allege.

Ciochon-Newton was convicted of abusing her husband while they lived together in the U.S. She served prison time for violating restraining orders the man had been granted when they were getting divorced.

Prior to their move to the U.S., the couple were living in B.C. when the man lost his vision in one eye after Ciochon-Newton struck him in the face while he was recovering from eye surgery, court documents allege. When the man’s surgeon offered to help him pursue criminal charges, Ciochon-Newton made false allegations against the surgeon, resulting in an investigation by the College of Physicians and Surgeons.

There are two outstanding warrants for Ciochon-Newton’s arrest in the U.S. for threatening her ex-husband and breaching a protection order.

Between 2011 and 2026, Ciochon-Newton allegedly sent the man more than 160 emails, voicemails and text messages, none of which he responded to.

“Some of the messages insisted (the man) have the warrants for her arrest removed. Others instructed him to wreak havoc on the lives of her former victims,” court documents say. Ciochon-Newton sent hundreds of additional messages to the man’s family, friends and co-workers “in an attempt to harass, disparage, and/or communicate with him.”

At one point, security staff at the man’s university kept a picture of Ciochon-Newton at their desk “out of fear she would show up at the front door with a gun to shoot (him),” court documents say.

Ciochon’s next court date is Oct. 19.

dean.pritchard@freepress.mb.ca