Bomb Threats

For producer Behrooz Afrakhan, a 27-year-old Iranian-born graduate of Agoura High School, his adopted American Dream was to have been realized this week with the world premiere of his first film at the Century City Cineplex Odeon. It was there that "Veiled Threat," a low-budget thriller based on the real-life murder of an Iranian journalist living in Orange County, was to have been shown as a featured selection of the American Film Institute Los Angeles International Film Festival.

Pomona police evacuated a middle school Monday after someone phoned in a bomb threat. The threat to Palomares Academy in the 2200 block of Orange Grove Drive was reported around 9:15 a.m. but did not detail any specifics, said Pomona police Lt. Eddie Vazquez. He said the caller made a broad threat and quickly hung up. "We are evacuating as a precaution," Vazquez said. "We have to take everything seriously. " Vazquez said a police bomb squad would search the campus for any possible device.

A 59-year-old man serving a federal prison sentence in Arizona for making bomb threats to Disneyland faces multiple counts of sexual assault involving two Orange County women he met through Pennysaver ads in the 1980s. James Michael Camp, 59, of Anaheim, was scheduled to be arraigned Friday on two felony counts of residential burglary, two counts of forcible rape, two counts of forcible oral copulation, one count of grand theft and one count of robbery with a sentencing enhancement for the personal use of a knife.

Santa Monica College was evacuated Tuesday because of a bomb threat, police said. About 12:30 p.m. Santa Monica police were requested to assist in evacuating the main campus quad, said Santa Monica police Sgt. Richard Lewis. The threat was cleared about 1:30 p.m. The threat marks the latest in a string of reports of threats and suspicious packages across the Southland since the Boston Marathon was bombed last week. The Boston Marathon bombings have left local police stretched thin as they are forced to deal with troubling consequences: a surge in bomb squad calls from people who think they've spotted an explosive and an uptick in fake threats from opportunists seeking attention during a time of fear and frayed nerves.

Bomb threats forced tens of thousands of people to flee college campuses in Texas and North Dakota on Friday, and campus safety experts were continuing to investigate the threats -- both of which proved false -- throughout the day. The Federal Bureau of Investigation saw the threats as “largely local matters,” special agent Jason Pack said in a telephone interview from Washington. “There's nothing we know that links the threats to something else.” The Austin campus of the University of Texas was shut for hours, as was the campus of North Dakota State University in Fargo.

Hundreds of people were evacuated from the state capitol complex Friday because of two telephoned bomb threats, officials said.

As the Angels hitters crushed home run after home run off Tigers' pitching Tuesday, Detroit police scoured Comerica Park for an explosive device after receiving an anonymous threat. The nearly 34,000 fans sat and watched the Angels overpower the Tigers , 13-0. All the while, police and Tigers security personnel were conducting a three-hour search throughout the stadium. Police said the call came in at 8 p.m. EDT, nearly an hour after the game had begun, but would not discuss why there was no announcement made to fans or players during the game and why no evacuation attempt was made.

Anyone want to peek at Steve Jobs' FBI file? Yes, please! On Thursday the FBI released a 191-page file that the agency compiled on Jobs in 1991. It contains multiple confirmations of Jobs' dabblings in marijuana and LSD, as well as some notes on a bomb threat he received in 1985. But the juicy stuff is in pages and pages of notes of interviews the FBI conducted with Jobs' friends, ex-friends, neighbors, employees and colleagues, one of whom described the computer industry icon as "willing to twist the truth and distort reality in order to achieve his goals.

Bomb threats prompted police to evacuate the state's 45 courthouses Friday, abruptly interrupting trials and sending judges, lawyers and people with routine court business into the streets. A caller said bombs would go off at 2 p.m. The buildings were searched with dogs and no explosives were found. Public Safety Commissioner Leonard Boyle said there were five threats that were not directed against specific courthouses.

The husky-voiced caller warned police that LAX travelers were in grave danger: "There's a bomb. . . . You need to find it or people will die." It was the second such threat directed at Los Angeles International Airport that day -- June 22 -- and the fourth in less than two weeks. Each time, cops, federal agents and bomb-sniffing dogs scoured the terminal. Each time, they came up empty-handed: no suspects, no explosives. In fact, the vast majority of bomb threat cases go unsolved, according to local and federal officials.

A bomb scare closed streets in the heart of Beverly Hills for a short time on Friday. According to the Beverly Hills police, a bomb threat was called in at a Rite Aid drugstore on Canon Drive. Police closed numerous streets in the area as they investigated around noon. By 12:50 p.m., police determined there was no bomb and began reopening streets. ALSO: Man found in shallow grave died from blow to head, coroner says Businessman accused of using doctors' investments on cars, boats Burger King at your door?

Bomb squads from Hollywood to East L.A. to Berkeley have been busy as law enforcement officers responded to multiple bomb threats in the wake of the Boston Marathon attack. At Cal State Los Angeles on Thursday, a caller reached authorities by a pay phone to say a bomb had been planted on the East L.A. campus and was set to go off at 1 p.m. LAPD Assistant Chief Michel Moore said school administrators decided to evacuate the campus and cancel classes as a precaution. The caller said a bomb would explode in two hours, Moore said.

Los Angeles police cleared Cal State L.A. on Thursday afternoon after a bomb threat forced the evacuation and closure of the campus. The campus was cleared about 2:30 p.m., police said. However, it remained closed off more than an hour later, and a university tweet said classes were canceled for the remainder of the day. About 4 p.m., a bomb squad was examining a backpack left behind at a McDonald's at Eastern Avenue and Ramona Boulevard, near the main university entrance.

Several students and faculty members at Cal State L.A. said they have yet to receive text or email alerts from the university about a bomb threat -- nearly two hours after officials decided to evacuate campus and cancel classes. LAPD Assistant Chief Michel Moore said school administrators, after learning of the threat sometime before noon, made the decision to evacuate the El Sereno campus and cancel classes as a precaution. The caller said a bomb would explode in two hours, Moore said.

The caller stood at a pay phone outside a Carl's Jr. in El Monte and warned police: Bombs will explode in two hours, he said. One at Cal State L.A. , the other at UC Berkeley. The reactions of the two public universities, though, were markedly different. At Cal State L.A., administrators sounded fire alarms across campus, evacuated dorm rooms and classrooms and canceled school for the rest of the day. UC Berkeley police officials deemed the same threat "low credibility" and the campus proceeded with business as usual.

Hollywood Boulevard was temporarily closed Thursday over a bomb scare at a Hooters restaurant. Los Angeles Police Department officials said a man walked into Hooters with an ice chest he claimed had a bomb inside. The suspect was later taken into custody. He told officers: "I was just joking," according to a law enforcement source. The LAPD bomb squad is sweeping the restaurant to determine whether there is a threat. ALSO: Exotic snakes on the loose at Torrance park Alleged O.C. drug dealer charged with murder in overdose death Coastal commissioner resigns after Vietnam 'carpet bombing' remark    

A bomb threat forced a Singapore Airlines 747 jet with 299 people en route from Singapore to Tokyo and Los Angeles to land in Hong Kong on Thursday, an airline spokeswoman said. The search turned up nothing, and the plane left 3 1/2 hours later for Tokyo.

Los Angeles police bomb squad members were responding to the KTLA-TV studio in Hollywood after a man called up and said he was going to detonate explosive devices on the property, authorities said Tuesday evening. A man called 911 and said he was "going to detonate" three devices, which were on the north side of the station at 5800 Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood, Officer Christopher No of the Los Angeles Police Department told The Times.  Employees were evacuated, KTLA said in a Tweet.