Mark Stephen Asea, a Florida TikTok creator who brands himself a “demonologist” and “Grey Hat Hacker,” was booked back into jail Sept. 30 on a felony computer-access charge.
Asea, 36, of Port St. Lucie, faces the offense-against-computer-users count after prosecutors revived a criminal case that had collapsed months earlier. His bond was set at $35,000, according to St. Lucie County Jail records. He is scheduled for arraignment Nov. 19.
The case first erupted in April when Asea was arrested on stalking and computer-related allegations, but prosecutors dropped those charges in May. They filed the current charge Sept. 24, court records show. The records do not explain what prompted the renewed prosecution or why the earlier case was abandoned.
Police affidavits describe two women who said their private information surfaced in Asea’s TikTok posts. One woman told investigators she had trusted him to help with a computer problem. She said she allowed Asea to remotely access her computer in October 2025 to troubleshoot an application. Months later, she told police, he claimed he had essentially placed a virus on the computer while she was in the bathroom, allowing him to view information without her knowledge.
She said she never authorized that access.
Then a photograph from a private Telegram message on her phone allegedly appeared in one of his TikTok posts. Asea claimed in a comment that the image came from a WhatsApp exchange, according to the affidavit. But the woman provided investigators a screenshot showing the photograph in the Telegram message.
For the second woman, the breach allegedly came through a closed TikTok group chat. She told investigators the password had been shared only in that group. Asea was not a member, she said, although she suspected he might have joined through a fake account.
Nobody in the chat had permission to share it outside the group, she told police. She also said she did not know how he would have obtained her phone identification number or banking information.
In a video reviewed by a detective, Asea allegedly rattled off details about her devices and claimed to know her recent spending.
“Let’s talk about your actual password,” he said, according to a transcript in the affidavit.
“How about we talk about the last 10 purchases you made online?”
The alleged posts accumulated rapidly. Investigators said Asea uploaded more than 100 TikTok videos mentioning one woman, sometimes posting as many as six in a day. He also allegedly obtained a website where he posted a photograph of her getting a tattoo.
Police also documented statements in which Asea appeared to boast about finding her location through her phone.
“Thanks to the GPS within her phone, but what did I do?” he said in the video, according to the affidavit.
Asea’s TikTok biography lists “Demonologist,” “Clairsentient,” “Empath,” “PTSD,” “Grey Hat Hacker” and “Woodsman.” The April affidavit documented a different account biography that included “former satanist” and “cybersecurity engineer.”
Beyond the criminal case, Asea faced a separate civil stalking protection case over the summer. A woman obtained a temporary injunction in July, but a judge dissolved it and dismissed that case Sept. 8.
Months after the original charges were dropped, Asea is again facing a felony computer-access charge.
He is scheduled to be arraigned Nov. 19.