Michelle Dick was taken into custody in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on Saturday and is being held without bond in the Allen County Jail while she awaits extradition to California. A Fort Wayne Police Department representative said officers found Dick at a nearby hotel after receiving intelligence from law enforcement partners.
The arrest marks the latest turn in a case that began after Lindsey Buckingham said he was attacked last month in Santa Monica, California, when he showed up for an appointment. The alleged suspect threw an unknown substance at Buckingham and fled immediately, according to the account in court filings and later reporting.
Court documents say Dick, 55, has been charged with two counts of stalking, two counts of threats to commit a crime with intent to terrorize, assault with a deadly weapon, vandalism and battery. The offense dates stretch back to October 2021 and run as recently as last month, tying the current case to a pattern that has followed the Fleetwood Mac singer for years.
Buckingham sought a restraining order against Dick in December 2024, saying the harassment began in 2021 after she allegedly called his wife Kristen's business cell phone number dozens of times a day and left long messages. In his petition, Buckingham said Dick claimed she was his child and threatened to kill him and his family. He also wrote, “I am afraid her conduct may escalate into something physically dangerous to me and my family.”
He said Dick blamed him for facial deformities she apparently suffered as a child and demanded money. “She also blamed me for facial deformities she apparently suffered as a child and demanded money. I do not know Ms. Dick, and I am not her father,” Buckingham said in the filing.
That picture became harder to dismiss after Dick told KTLA earlier this month that she had approached Buckingham in March and had previously gone to his Brentwood home. The comments, combined with the new arrest in Indiana and the pending extradition to California, suggest prosecutors are now treating the allegations as more than a one-off confrontation. What happens next is whether those charges, and the restraining-order claims behind them, turn into a courtroom record that finally settles a case that has shadowed Buckingham since 2021.
