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Ham radio operator sentenced for jamming police

An amateur radio operator from San Jacinto, California, who had admitted making a series of transmissions threatening the lives of local police officers and fire department personnel has learned her fate. Amateur Radio Newsline's Bruce Tennant, K6PZW, has the details.

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On Friday, October 8th, twenty-nine year old Irene Levy, KJ6CEY, pleaded guilty to seven charges involving interference to the Hemet California police and the Riverside County Fire Department. A judge in the city of Murrieta sentenced her to three years probation and gave her credit for the time she spent in jail since her arrest last spring. She was also ordered to undergo psychiatric care.

As previously reported on Amateur Radio Newsline, last May 3rd police closed in on KJ6CEY just seconds after she made a final transmission on a Hemet police frequency using a commercial H-T. Investigators from the Hemet Police Department as well as Cal Fire said that the unauthorized, random transmissions were made from Levy's mobile home in San Jacinto. Her radio transmissions, which included bomb threats, were monitored on frequencies used by the Hemet police and the Riverside County Fire Department and that they went beyond nuisance calls.

At that time, Hemet Police Sargent Mark Richards was quoted by The Press-Enterprise newspaper in Riverside as saying Levy disguised her voice as a man and made references to the deaths of police and firefighters and made bomb threats. He said some of the transmissions came during a Cal Fire search and rescue call, a major traffic accident, and a brush fire.

Richards report stated the transmissions began May 1st and ended in the early morning hours of May 3rd. He said in the report that direction-finding equipment helped locate Levy, who in one of her transmissions on May 2 suggested "police would never find her." Richards report said that during the raid on her trailer, police seized 11 radios, seven scanners, radio frequency lists, computer equipment and other miscellaneous radio gear. He says in the report they also seized Levy's Technician class amateur radio license, showing it had been issued inSeptember 2009.

On her now removed QRZ.com bio page, Irene Levy had claimed to have a General Mobile Radio Service license, but the call sign attached to it is actually registered to her husband, Michael Levy KE6ALV. She had also claimed to have monitored the Keller Peak repeater as well as the Hemet repeaters. Levy also said in that now gone QRZ bio she was active on Citizens Band radio prior to getting married and described herself as a CB'er at heart.

Bruce Tennant, K6PZW
Amateur Radio Newsline

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But Irene Levy's problems may be far from over. At this point the FCC has not yet entered into the matter. If it does and decides to cite KJ6CEY, she could face a fine, a license suspension or even a hearing to determine if she should be permitted to continue as an FCC amateur radio licensee.



(Inland Empire News, Press-Enterprise, ARNewsline™)
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