A 21 -year -old carlsbad man who, according to the authorities, had exchanged messages concerning attacks of firearms and bombs with a Wisconsin teenager who then opened fire in his Wisconsin school was prohibited Monday to own or have firearms for three years.
FBI agents and local authorities, including Carlsbad police, arrested Alexander Charles Paffendorf on December 17, the day after the authorities, a first -year student opened fire to a abundant Christian school in Madison, killing a pupil and a teacher and injuring six more before getting dead.
Carlsbad police also obtained an emergency protection prescription to separate paffendorf from firearms, citing her communications with the teenage girl, including discussions on attacks against a government building. Paffendorf said on Monday that there was no attack plan.
The orders for the ban on armed violence are the orders of the civil court intended for intervention in the event of a crisis, and they must be approved by a judge. Paffendorf was not criminally charged and no accusation of this type is expected, said a lawyer for the Carlsbad police at the hearing. No firearm has been found recorded in his name or located in his house.
Monday, judge of the San Diego Superior Court, Blair Soper, ordered that Paffendorf could not have firearms for three years – a year more than Carlsbad had not asked for.
Paffendorf and the girl had communicated on the Discord application, according to the testimony on Monday during a hearing to soper in order to decide to maintain the order for the prohibition of armed violence.
By making his decision, Soper said that he seemed “there was enough things in these discussions to give (discord) and this concern of the court”.
“This incident has just occurred in December, and it is too early to determine that you are allowed to have a weapon,” said soper. “This affair is simply too serious. The court will order him for three years. “
Before the Soper’s decision, the detective of the San Diego police, Justin Wallace, who is a member of the joint working group of the region’s joint terrorism, said that Discord had informed the FBI of messages containing suicidal statements and threats of violence against government buildings.
In the messages, said Wallace, Paffendorf had discussed anterior mass violence attacks, fertilizer bombs and having seen videos on the manufacture of bombs.
The detective said that Paffendorf told him that he had sent the messages when he was in “pursuing a romantic relationship” with the Wisconsin adolescent, Natalie “Samantha” Rupnow. He also said that Paffendorf had visited white and anti -Semitic supremacist websites.
Paffendorf, who was represented at the hearing, said there were no plots. “These are really out of the way,” he said. “They were very inappropriate, but they were nevertheless comments.”
Paffendorf stressed that there had been no arrest or criminal accusation filed. He said that he had continued schooling and employment, and that the order of the emergency court “created a hiccup”.
When Paffendorf was detained in December, a clinician who spoke with him found that he was potentially a danger for himself or for others and sought to keep him in hospital for 72 hours for a mental health assessment. Paffendorf was released after taking.
The assistant prosecutor of the city of Carlsbad, Marissa Kawecki, allegedly alleged that Paffendorf had a Valium prescription and had used marijuana daily. Paffendorf said that he had “no more marijuana consumption or use of anything”.
By requesting the prohibition order. Kawecki noted that there is no criminal case or other protection order. “Really, all we have is this mechanism, this order for non-intention of armed violence, and this is one of the reasons why it was created by the Legislative Assembly.”
Originally published:
California Daily Newspapers
