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A Long Beach teenager faces charges of making California criminal threats after allegedly creating a fake Facebook account and then threatening classmates. According to the Los Angeles Times, in addition to charges of making criminal threats, he has also been charged with obstruction of justice. As stated by the Long Beach police, "Posing a threat online is no different than making a threat face-to-face."

If you have been charged with making criminal threats or any other California crime, it is important to contact an experienced Los Angeles criminal defense attorney to protect your rights and begin preparing your defense.

Long Beach police are using this case as an example to teenagers of social networking dangers. Despite the importance of this lesson - including the need to know whom you are accepting friend requests from - it is important not to forget the rights of the individual who allegedly made the threats.

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L.A. Now reports that a Claremont man, Martin Calvin Yarbrough, has been arrested on a suspicion of making criminal threats.

The man is accused of sending threatening letters containing a powdery substance to the Los Angeles County children's courthouse and the Department of Children and Family Services.

California Penal Code Section 422 defines a criminal threat as an intentional and willful threat of harm made to another with the intention of making the person fear for his or her safety, or the safety of his or her immediate family. If you have been accused of charged of making criminal threats, it is important to contact a skilled Los Angeles criminal defense at once to discuss your options and begin preparing your defense.

Here, the Claremont man has been indicted on 13 counts of making threats and hoaxes. If convicted of all counts he faces up to 65 years in prison.

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A man dressed in a clown suit who often attends San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors meetings has been arrested on charges of "felony criminal threats."

California law enforcement officials take criminal threats - formerly known as "terrorists threats" - very seriously. A criminal threat is an "intentional and willful threat of harm" made to another designed to make the person fear for his or her safety, or the safety of his or her immediate family.

Here, the "clown community activist" was arrested on a $1 million felony warrant for threatening a Bell City Clerk.

In some situations such as where the alleged target's interpretation of the accused's statements or actions was unreasonable or where a threat was not sufficiently clear nor immediate, charges may be reduced or dismissed.

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