Security guard sentenced to six months in federal prison for hoax bomb threat: NBA News
On account of making several bogus bomb threats to the NBA properties office, a private security guard, José Quesada, has been sentenced to six months in federal prison and six months in home detention.
The U.S Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced the verdict of the court on Wednesday.
According to the petition filed in the Newark federal court, Quesada, who was hired by NBA to look after the league’s properties office, made several calls and left multiple voice messages from his cell phone saying that he will
blow up the building and kill everyone.
The threats from Jose started in July 2010, when he left messages of planting a bomb continuously for three days in a row.
In one call, Jose Quesada said, “I put a bomb outside. . . Gonna kill all the NBA. I put a bomb outside in the bush. No way out. Gonna blow up at 9:00 o’clock in the morning. Good luck. . . If you come out, it will blow up.”
In another call, Jose recorded a voice message threatening that the bomb is in the building and it will blow up any time."Leave the building. It's gonna blow up. Leave the building. Nowhere to go. It's gonna go up. It's gonna go
Boom.”
Each time, the building was evacuated and the armed forces and bomb disposal squads searched for the explosive material in vain. Additional security measures were also insured every time which not only involved a substantial cost
but also a lot of valuable time of the law enforcement agencies.
The 20-year-old guard was not only charged with making several bomb threats, the private security guard was also alleged with “wilfully providing false information indicating that malicious damage of a building or vehicle would
take place.”
U.S Attorney Paul J. Fishman stated that Quesada was hired to insure and deploy security for National Basketball Association’s affiliate. However, he involved himself in a federal crime for bomb hoax.
“A bomb threat is not a prank. It is a federal crime. There is nothing amusing about scaring people and wasting the valuable time and resources of those responsible for keeping us safe.” Fishman said.
On top of six months of jail and home detention involving electrical monitoring, the U.S. District Judge Jose L. Linares also announced three years of supervised release to Jose Quesada.
On the occasion, Paul J. Fishman accredited the contribution of special agents of FBI, New Jersey Office of Homeland Securities and the local police departments of investigation who responded efficiently every time against the
bomb threats.
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