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Stalker of NY Reporter is Unfit for Trial

The wack job that was arrested for stalking WCBS Reporter Diane Macedo has been found unfit to stand trial.

Lawyers for Richard Pagani, 30, were handed the results of recent exams by court doctors that the stalker was found not competent to proceed on attempted burglary and stalking charges.

Pagani was arrested April 14 for the creepy campaign against the CBS New York reporter for a series of Facebook messages and visits between July 2012 and April 15.

“hey i could real lie use that ur there for me i havent been in a relation ship in like ten years, not a date or sex, nothen," he wrote in an error-laden message from July 2012.

In another unsettling missive, he sent a photo of himself watching her on TV, apparently with superimposed hearts coming out of his eyes.

“I’m surprised my cock didn’t fall out of my pants when I saw you on television,” he wrote with a series of photos to Macedo.

The weirdness reached a peak when Pagani allegedly followed her while she was covering the funeral for NYPD Officer Dennis Guerra last month. He allegedly banged on the window of the news van.

He walked away but the attempt to confront her was followed up with a Facebook rant.

Pagani is being ordered held without bail. He’ll next appear in court on May 29 for prosecutors to say whether they’ll confirm him as unfit.

If he’s formally deemed unfit, he’ll be committed to a state psych facility.

His lawyer, Benjamin Yu, said Pagani has a history of mental illness.

"I think the court came to the right result based on his long history of bipolar disorder," Yu said. 

H/T NY Daily News