2 Sentenced to Prison in Bomb Threats Case
Two alleged white supremacists accused of planting false bombs in the San Fernando Valley and Hollywood to drive out nonwhites were sentenced to state prison Monday, according to the Los Angeles district attorney’s hate crimes prosecutor.
Deputy Dist. Atty. Carla Arranaga said Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Elihu M. Berle sentenced Jeffrey Allen Campbell, 28, of Burbank to 15 years and Justin Nicholas Bertone, 20, also of Burbank, to seven years in prison.
The two men were reputed members of a white supremacist group called White Criminals on Dope, Arranaga said.
Each pleaded no contest to numerous counts of shooting at an inhabited dwelling, making false bomb threats and possession of narcotics for sale, Arranaga said.
Campbell and Bertone were arrested Jan. 8 on suspicion of planting false bombs in apartments and businesses in Sunland-Tujunga, Sherman Oaks and Hollywood, beginning in July 1996. No one was hurt in the incidents, but the threats “were designed to induce fear in African American and Hispanic communities, to prompt them to leave,” Arranaga said.
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