An Arizona woman is facing more than 50 criminal charges after allegedly running a yearslong campaign of death threats, swatting calls, and sexual harassment against her own parents and relatives while impersonating an innocent man.

Shelbey Fernandez, 30, of Peoria, was arrested following an investigation into thousands of hostile text messages sent between 2019 and Aug. 6, 2026. According to an arrest affidavit, Fernandez used Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) numbers to mask her identity, posing as the husband of a doctor she had previously visited.

Investigators say Fernandez targeted family members across Arizona and Florida with graphic threats of violence and dismemberment.

“You’ll never get rid of me,” Fernandez allegedly stated in one message detailed in the affidavit.

In other texts cited by police, she allegedly wrote, “can’t wait to press and push the trigger against your hubby’s head,” and, “I feel like skinning that son of a b— … Feel like killing you. Driving your corpse out to the Sahara [desert] and dismembering your body.”

Authorities also allege Fernandez engaged in swatting—falsely reporting emergencies to trigger heavy police responses at her relatives’ homes.

“I wish I could f— you … Then throw you in a pond and watch gators tear you apart,” Fernandez allegedly wrote to one relative. “How did you like getting swatted yesterday? I’ll have your residential area swatted again if you keep ignoring me.”

The affidavit states that Fernandez threatened a mass shooting, writing: “Can’t wait to shoot up their cult facility, and annihilate every cult gathering of their kind.”

Investigators also found that Fernandez sent explicit images involving minors to her family members, including sending a photo of an unclothed infant to her own mother. Police noted she insinuated the picture showed the minor daughter of the couple she was impersonating.

“I’ll keep sending child porn,” she allegedly told a relative. “Nothing you can do. I have authorities in my family.”

In another message, Fernandez allegedly wrote, “I’m so ecstatic I have more victims to f— with.”

Detectives formally linked Fernandez to the VoIP accounts and swatting incidents earlier this month. She faces more than 50 counts, including making terrorist threats, stalking, harassment by false report, and sexual exploitation of a minor.

Fernandez is scheduled to appear in court on Aug. 20 for a preliminary hearing.