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Man arrested, charged with making terrorist threats
Saturday, June 16, 2007
NADIA M. TAYLOR Staff Reporter
A 38-year-old Mobile man was arrested Friday and charged with making terrorist threats against local news channel WPMI-TV15, Mobile police said.
Daniel Leonard was arrested after FBI agents and Mobile police searched his home on Taylor Avenue. Leonard was taken to Mobile County Metro Jail, police spokesman Officer Eric Gallichant said.
Leonard is not directly affiliated with the news channel, Gallichant said, but "does have an acquaintance and knows one other employee who is a member of NBC 15."
Gallichant would not release the name of the employee that Leonard is acquainted with.
Richard Allyn, a reporter for WPMI, answered the telephone Friday night at the address listed for Leonard, but declined comment on the arrest. A phone call to WPMI's general manager, Bob Franklin, was not returned late Friday.
WPMI's nighttime anchor, Greg Peterson, who was at police headquarters Friday night when Leonard was taken from that building to Metro Jail, declined comment and said that all comments had to come from Clear Channel's corporate officials.
They could not be reached Friday night.
Gallichant said the threats to the news channel began June 7 in the form of e-mails threatening to do harm to employees at the station.
Gallichant said he did not believe the threats were directed at any particular member of WPMI, but to "employees in general."
Gallichant would not say how authorities connected the e-mails to Leonard, citing an ongoing investigation. The spokesman said he didn't know if authorities expected more arrests.
"The investigation is not completely closed, and we haven't made a determination one way or another whether there will be any more arrests," Gallichant said.
There had been a police presence at the news station, Gallichant said, after WPMI hired off-duty police officers to provide security since the threats began.
Making terrorist threats is a Class C felony under Alabama law, Gallichant said, punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
The investigation was a joint operation between the Mobile Police Department, FBI, U.S. Attorney's Office and the Mobile Count District Attorney's Office.
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Daniel Leonard: Top story video
Man arrested, charged with making terrorist threats
Saturday, June 16, 2007
NADIA M. TAYLOR Staff Reporter
A 38-year-old Mobile man was arrested Friday and charged with making terrorist threats against local news channel WPMI-TV15, Mobile police said.
Daniel Leonard was arrested after FBI agents and Mobile police searched his home on Taylor Avenue. Leonard was taken to Mobile County Metro Jail, police spokesman Officer Eric Gallichant said.
Leonard is not directly affiliated with the news channel, Gallichant said, but "does have an acquaintance and knows one other employee who is a member of NBC 15."
Gallichant would not release the name of the employee that Leonard is acquainted with.
Richard Allyn, a reporter for WPMI, answered the telephone Friday night at the address listed for Leonard, but declined comment on the arrest. A phone call to WPMI's general manager, Bob Franklin, was not returned late Friday.
WPMI's nighttime anchor, Greg Peterson, who was at police headquarters Friday night when Leonard was taken from that building to Metro Jail, declined comment and said that all comments had to come from Clear Channel's corporate officials.
They could not be reached Friday night.
Gallichant said the threats to the news channel began June 7 in the form of e-mails threatening to do harm to employees at the station.
Gallichant said he did not believe the threats were directed at any particular member of WPMI, but to "employees in general."
Gallichant would not say how authorities connected the e-mails to Leonard, citing an ongoing investigation. The spokesman said he didn't know if authorities expected more arrests.
"The investigation is not completely closed, and we haven't made a determination one way or another whether there will be any more arrests," Gallichant said.
There had been a police presence at the news station, Gallichant said, after WPMI hired off-duty police officers to provide security since the threats began.
Making terrorist threats is a Class C felony under Alabama law, Gallichant said, punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
The investigation was a joint operation between the Mobile Police Department, FBI, U.S. Attorney's Office and the Mobile Count District Attorney's Office.
Wow. Just wow....