AUBURN – Police are hoping to learn the identity of the person who penned harassing mailings to the woman who accused Lewiston Mayor Lionel Guay of sexual harassment.

Guay was found not guilty by a jury two weeks ago on all charges of sexual touching and assault lodged by Danielle Ramon, who worked in his office last year while she was a high school student.

Now a college student, Ramon reported last week getting harassing mailings from someone who took her to task for pressing her case against Guay.

“Shame on you, Danielle,” the anonymous author wrote in one letter. “You tried to bring him down and ruin his marriage … it backfired. Good!”

In the same letter, written in inked script, the writer makes derogatory references to Ramon’s sexual orientation and physical appearance. It is signed: “Enjoy, you B..ch!”

Ramon gave police the two mailings and was interviewed about them, said Lt. Jason Moen, who heads up the detective bureau at the Auburn Police Department.

He said the case is being investigated as a crime. Harassment is a misdemeanor, he said.

On Sept. 29, Ramon received the first mailing, a handwritten letter and a clipping of an Associated Press article about Guay’s acquittal.

The second mailing, dated Oct. 3, included only a marked-up newspaper clipping with handwritten notes in the margins. The envelope was scrawled in a child’s hand, likely an attempt at disguising the handwriting.

Ramon said she shrugged off the first missive. But when the second one arrived at her parents’ Auburn home, she grew concerned.

“It made me uncomfortable,” she said. “It was stepping over the bounds.”

A police detective called her late last week and quizzed her about the letter and clips, she said Tuesday.

She was told to handle any suspicious mailings with gloves, not to open them and to notify police.

As of Tuesday, she hadn’t gotten any more, she said.

The detective also told Ramon to be aware of her surroundings, especially at night. And she shouldn’t be out alone, if possible.

Ramon said her mother lent her some Mace self-defense spray. She also calls her parents right before she heads for home after work, she said.

Aside from a few glares, most people have been supportive and wished her well since the trial, she said.

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