WEST NEW YORK – A 51-year old local man faces five criminal charges for allegedly threatening to blow up the West New York police station, according to an official release from the city.
The city’s press office said that between 6:28 and 7:24 p.m. on Sept. 24 the police department received six phone calls from the same male caller using the same number in which threats were allegedly made to the West New York Police Department. The caller allegedly reported a bomb had been planted in the station.
The caller also allegedly gave a false call of an officer being shot, the release said, and an investigation of the phone calls revealed the phone location and the name of the owner.
It was also determined there was an active arrest warrant for the phone owner for contempt of court from West New York, the release said, and that person was located and arrested on the active warrant. While at police headquarters the investigation continued and it was determined that the person in custody was the male caller who allegedly made the phone threats.
He was also in possession of the phone allegedly used to make the threats, the release said. He was charged with two counts of false public alarms, two counts of making terroristic threats, one count of making a false report to the police, plus the outstanding contempt of court allegation.
He is being held at the Hudson County Jail on $100,000 cash bail.
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