Apr 4, 2008 8:18 pm US/Eastern
Homestead Man Arrested For Internet Threats
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Homestead police say Calin Chi Wong was arrested last week and posted $75,000 bond.
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A 20- year-old Homestead man has been charged with making threats over the Internet about reenacting the Virginia Tech massacre.
Homestead police say Calin Chi Wong was arrested last week and posted $75,000 bond. Officers took a cache of weapons from Wong. Police say he made the threats under the screen name, "Humanabc." Prosecutors in Miami are exploring whether Wong also broke federal firearms law.
"At this point he doesn't (license to sell firearms) and that is another angle we are looking into as well," said
Detective Antonio Aquino, with the Homestead Police Department.
Officers say the actual tip for the story started in the Clackamas County (Ore.) Sheriff's Office when it was informed of Wong's words of reenacting the Virginia Tech massacre appeared in a March 25 online conversation.
Police say Wong agreed to let them into his house where officers saw "several long guns piled up on a shelf," in plain view, They also observed what appeared to be thousands of rounds of ammunition, as well as a number of gun magazines.
"I've never seen firearms in possession by a citizen in that large amount, in that one concentrated area," explained Aquino. " He believed that if Hillary Clinton won the presidency, that she would put a ban on firearms and guns in the process and therefore he would start pile of for financial wealth."
Wong allegedly typed on the internet: "As we all know around a year ago this guy named Cho shot up Virginia Tech because no one believe him. I'm soon to the point to re-enact the whole event. I feel there is no other choice out of this other than what Cho did."
Prosecutors want to see if Wong purchased his handguns. At age 20, he's a year too young to do so legally, even though someone his age can purchase the much more lethal firepower. Other legal questions are unanswered too.
"Bullets can be delivered to your home or business but you can't have weapons delivered to your home or business," said Aquino.
Friday, residents who live in Wong's Lakeshores community complex said they are concerned.
"If someone can get a hold of that much of an artillery, then laws have to be a little stricter," said Pat Douglas a resident.
Homestead Police said Wong admitted to making several other threats to others on the Internet and to trading/selling guns online.
Wong could not be reach or his family, for comment about the alleged internet threat he made, and the spark for the anger that prompted those threats.
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