UPDATE:
(News Release - Los Angeles County District Attorney's
Office)
Monrovia Man Charged
with Making Series of Threatening Calls
A 26-year-old man with a history of making false bomb
threats was charged today with multiple counts of making criminal threats and
falsely reporting an emergency, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s
Office announced.
Gerardo Cortez (dob 8-20-87) is scheduled to be arraigned
sometime after 1:30 p.m. at Los Angeles Superior Court, West Covina Branch, in
Department 4. Prosecutors will ask that his bail be set at $300,000.
Cortez is charged in case No. KA103202 with six counts of
making criminal threats and five counts of falsely reporting an emergency. The
complaint also alleges Cortez has a prior conviction of falsely reporting a
bomb to an agency or business.
Deputy District Attorney Sean Carney with the Target Crimes
Division is prosecuting the case.
Cortez allegedly made a series of threatening phone calls
over several days beginning on Sept. 9 to schools, a medical center, a mall and
a police agency. The calls forced searches in several communities.
Police departments of the cities of Arcadia, Covina and
Monrovia, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s
investigators from Temple Station, Major Crimes Bureau, and the Joint Terrorism
Task Force launched a joint investigation which resulted to the suspect’s
arrest.
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About the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office
Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey leads the
largest local prosecutorial office in the nation. Her staff of nearly 1,000
attorneys, 300 investigators and 800 support staff members is dedicated to
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Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office prosecutes more than 60,000
felonies and 140,000 misdemeanor crimes.
CONTACT:
Jane Robison
Public Information Officer
Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office
Sept. 19, 2013
I really hope they successfully prosecute this person (if he's guilty obviously) because so many go unpunished. Like graffiti, many go on offending undeterred.
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