Tulsa, OK – Man Receives Two-Year Prison for Jewish Center Bomb Threat

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    Christopher Jacob StefanelliTulsa, OK – A man who made a bomb threat to a Jewish retirement center has been handed a two-year prison term followed by probation after pleading guilty to the felony charge.

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    Christopher Jacob Stefanelli, 22, pleaded guilty today to phoning in the threat that led to the July 14 evacuation of the Tulsa Jewish Retirement and Health Care Center, (as was reported at that time here on VIN News).

    Police locked down the Zarrow Campus, 2025 E. 71st Street, for several hours as the Tulsa Police Department’s bomb squad investigated the claim.

    A ticking device – later determined to be a harmless clock – was found in a trash can at the center, but police said its placement there was purely coincidental.

    Authorities said the threat stemmed from a domestic dispute between Stefanelli and his boyfriend, who works at the center.

    Stefanelli was sentenced to two years in prison and two years of probation, court records show.


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    murray
    murray
    14 years ago

    Did I read that right?—-“His Boyfriend”……….that part is jut as sick as the main storyline.

    Avrohom Abba
    Avrohom Abba
    14 years ago

    This guy is not just a sicko punk kid. He is a Jew hater. He never would have done this against an Italian group, or a Catholic group. He also would not have had the guts to do this against a Moslem building or mosque.
    He is just a hater of jews who deserved to be punished.
    Bye punk, you will be back, but so will we.

    Moshe
    Moshe
    14 years ago

    Thank G-d it wasnt Anti-Semitism.