CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – A woman who alleges a Virginia state trooper left threatening notes on her door in November told Cville Right Now the incident left her shaken, fearful to walk to her car at night and extra-vigilant watching over her 10-year-old son.

“It’s just been very scary,” the woman, who requested to be anonymous, said Thursday. “I have a child as well, so it’s just been scary. It’s dark outside when I would go to work. I would be scared to walk to my vehicle. My boyfriend would have to walk me outside. I wouldn’t let my son outside because I knew the officer lived, literally, you know right down the street. I’m in the same apartment complex so it’s just been very scary.”

Virginia State Trooper Logan G. Pingley was indicted Monday on a felony charge of communicating a written threat, according to a statement from the Virginia State Police. Pingley’s attorney did not return messages seeking comment.

Pingley has been on leave since November. The VSP confirmed he is currently on “administrative leave pending the outcome of the proceedings.” Those proceedings include an internal investigation by the VSP Professional Standards Division.

The woman said she had returned home around 9 p.m. on Nov. 8 and gone inside her Charlottesville apartment. About 20 minutes later, she said, her boyfriend arrived and found the notes on the door.

One read, “You’re not safe anywhere,” and the other read, “F— around and find out.”

The woman checked her doorbell camera footage and then contacted the police. She said she did not recognize the man on the security video, but her boyfriend had seen him around the neighborhood, she said.

“They got back to her pretty quickly and told her that identified the person, and he was a state trooper who lived near her,” the women’s attorney, Jeff Fogel, told Cville Right Now on Thursday. “That scared her even more.”

Her fear turned to frustration when the investigation seemed to drag on for months. She filed for a protective order against Pingley, Fogel said, and – this week, moved away from the apartment complex where the incident occurred.

She is considering a civil lawsuit in the matter.

The court appointed a special prosector, Fogel said, bringing in a prosecutor from Roanoke to handle the case. Finally, seven months later, Monday’s hearing resulted in the indictment.

“They’ve just kept pushing it off pushing it off and basically told us, ‘I’ll get to it when they get to it,’” the woman said. “Very frustrating.”

Fogel echoed that frustration.

“We’ve never gotten an explanation of why this all took so long,” Fogel said. “It’s a very simple matter.”