VAN NUYS : Lawyer Begins 2-Year Jail Term for Threats
A Westwood attorney has begun serving a two-year jail sentence after being convicted of threatening to rape and mutilate a female attorney who practices in the San Fernando Valley.
Robert Jeff Claster, 47, pleaded no contest in Van Nuys Municipal Court on Tuesday to five counts of making threatening phone calls. He was immediately taken into custody, and Judge Lloyd M. Nash ordered Claster to undergo psychiatric counseling.
Prosecutors said Claster made numerous threatening phone calls to the unnamed 41-year-old attorney during the last four months of 1992. He was identified as the person who called the woman’s home and office after Pacific Bell placed an electronic trap on her phone lines.
Claster has two prior convictions of a similar nature, according to the city attorney’s office. He was convicted of stalking a Beverly Hills woman in the spring of 1992 after making threatening calls, prosecutors said.
Claster was also convicted of making annoying phone calls in 1987.
In both prior cases, Claster was fined and placed on probation.
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