{"id":451405,"date":"2010-03-20T10:43:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T14:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310fc0cfd2970c"},"modified":"2010-03-20T11:02:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T15:02:23","slug":"riverside-police-officers-targeted-with-threat-to-blow-up-police-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/451405","title":{"rendered":"Riverside police officers targeted with threat to blow up police car"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<ul class=\"clearfix\">\n<li id=\"hst_galleryitem_index1\" style=\"display: block;\">\n            \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstimes.com\/default\/article\/Hemet-police-on-heightened-alert-after-new-threat-415049.php#photo-2\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href,'_blank','scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newstimes.com\/mediaManager\/?controllerName=image&amp;action=get&amp;id=131243&amp;width=628&amp;height=471\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 5px; height: 355px; width: 533px; display: block;\"><\/img><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Riverside County authorities are investigating yet another threat received Friday against police officers in Hemet.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday afternoon, someone called 911 saying a police car would be blown up in the next two days as revenge for a law-enforcement sweep earlier this week of a local motorcycle gang.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said they were trying to determine whether the threat was linked to a string of <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2010\/mar\/18\/local\/la-me-hemet-brown19-2010mar19\">incidents targeting police officers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> The attacks have involved booby traps at the<br \/>\nheadquarters of the Hemet-San Jacinto Gang Task Force or targeting officers<br \/>\nassigned to the unit, officials said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> In December, a utility<br \/>\nline was redirected to flood the offices with gas; any spark could have triggered an explosion. In February, a modified handgun was hidden by the<br \/>\ngate to the office and rigged to fire. When a gang officer opened the<br \/>\ngate, the weapon went off, narrowly missing him. And two weeks ago,<br \/>\npolice said, a &quot;dangerous&quot; device was found near the unmarked car of a<br \/>\ntask-force member.<\/p>\n<p> Officials have put up a $200,000 reward for<br \/>\ninformation leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible.<br \/>\nThe FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are assisting in the investigation.<\/p>\n<p> The gang task force, formed in 2006, is made up of local, state and federal law-enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n<p>\nSo far, there are no official suspects in the threats or potentially deadly incidents. But on Wednesday authorities<br \/>\nled raids on the Vagos outlaw motorcycle gang. The group has a significant<br \/>\npresence in Hemet. Thirty people were arrested on charges that included<br \/>\npossession of drugs and weapons.<\/p>\n<p>With the latest threat, Hemet police Chief Richard Dana told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pe.com\/localnews\/stories\/PE_News_Local_W_threat20.1c5381a2c.html\">Press-Enterprise<\/a>: &quot;We are on heightened alert.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Shelby Grad<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Hemet gang unit. AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riverside County authorities are investigating yet another threat received Friday against police officers in Hemet. On Friday afternoon, someone called 911 saying a police car would be blown up in the next two days as revenge for a law-enforcement sweep earlier this week of a local motorcycle gang. Authorities said they were trying to determine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}