California man convicted of planning a hoax attack on military installations in the state

The ship sails towards land, surrounded on one side by two smaller ships.

The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Spruance arrives at Naval Station Seal Beach to conduct gunnery operations. (Eli Medellin/US Navy)

(Tribune News Service) – A California man was sentenced Monday, Nov. 4, to a year in prison after pleading guilty to hoaxes alleging that various women were planning mass-casualty attacks on U.S. military installations in Orange and Los counties -Angeles.

Daniel Sandoval, 29, filed false information with the Department of Defense on March 21, 2021, claiming that a specific woman was planning to detonate bombs and carry out a mass attack on a U.S. Navy installation at Seal Beach, according to his plea agreement. .

Over the next few days, Sandoval submitted seven additional messages falsely accusing other women of planning attacks, including bombings and mass shootings, on various military installations, including the U.S. Army Reserve Center in South El Monte and a U.S. military hospital in Bell Gardens.

The women identified by Sandoval in the false messages were identified only by their initials in court documents.

“(Sandoval’s) illegal actions harmed not only the military bases he attacked and the personnel living or working on those bases, but also harmed the innocent women he alleged made these dangerous threats,” prosecutors argued. in the sentencing memorandum, according to a Department of Justice press release.

In his plea agreement, he also admitted that his conduct substantially disrupted the functions and services of the community and government, including the evacuation of personnel from the Navy building.

Sandoval, who pleaded guilty in February to one count of false information and hoaxes, was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison.

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