La Jolla JCC Bomb Threat Unfounded: San Diego Police

Updated at 1:12 p.m. Wednesday

LA JOLLA, CA – Another in a series of bogus bomb threats against Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center in University City prompted police to search the facility Wednesday.

Administrators at the Executive Drive center contacted San Diego police shortly before 11 a.m. to report receiving the menacing email, SDPD spokesman Billy Hernandez said.

Officers went through the complex with bomb-sniffing dogs to make sure no hazards were present. No evacuation was instituted, unlike on the previous occasions when the same crime was committed, Hernandez said.

By early afternoon, police had completed their search and deemed the threat unfounded, according to Dan Shapiro, Lawrence Family JCC's director of marketing.

It was at least the fourth phony threat made against the local Jewish community center in recent months amid a rash of similar hate crimes across the country.

Last week, a man was arrested in St. Louis in connection with at least eight fake bomb threats against Jewish centers across the country, including the one in northern San Diego, as part of an alleged campaign to harass a former girlfriend.

Juan Thompson, 31, allegedly targeted Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center on Feb. 20, according to a criminal complaint. Late that night, the facility received an email falsely claiming that Thompson's former girlfriend had planted a bomb there to "kill as many Jews asap (sic)," according to the charging document.

– By City News Service

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LA JOLLA, CA – San Diego police on Wednesday investigated another threat against Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center.

The San Diego Police Department received the report just before 11 a.m., according to a report by 10 News. The latest bomb threat comes after a series of unfounded threats targeting the Executive Drive facility and other Jewish centers across the United States in recent months.

According to police, the University City facility has not been evacuated.

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City News Service contributed to this story.

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