A Santa Fe Springs, California, man was sentenced to 12 months and one day in federal prison on Nov. 4 for deliberately submitting eight false online tips to the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD).
The man claimed that specific women were planning to commit mass casualty attacks at U.S. military facilities in Los Angeles and Orange counties, the Justice Department said in a Nov. 6 statement.
Daniel Sandoval, 29, pleaded guilty on Feb. 12 to one count of false information and hoaxes. Sandoval was sentenced by United States District Judge Stephen V. Wilson.
Sandoval deliberately provided a false online tip to the DOD reporting system, stating that a woman, identified only as “S.C.” in court documents, intended to set off bombs in a “mass attack” at a U.S Navy weapons facility in Seal Beach in Orange County….