{Repeater Owners Association:%} fire communications officials used direction finding equipment

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UPDATE:

Hemet police arrested a woman early today suspected of broadcasting
threats at police on emergency radio frequencies.

Irene Marie Levy, 29, of San Jacinto was arrested at her mobile home
in the 900 block of S. Grand Avenue on suspicion of criminal threats.

Police said Levy, who is a Ham Radio technician, made bomb threats and
referenced the death of police and firefighters.

The threats were not connected to previous threats and attacks on
Hemet police and the Hemet-San Jacinto Valley Gang Task Force since
New Year's Eve, authorities said. Officers have received death threats
and been targeted in assassination attempts by an unknown gang Levy
disguised her voice as a man while operating her radio and
broadcasting on Cal Fire and Hemet police frequencies from Saturday
night until she was arrested early Monday, Hemet police Sgt. Mark
Richards said in a report.

The threats came as firefighters were responding to a brush fire near
Beaumont and conducting a search and rescue call. The threats also
interrupted a fatal traffic collision in Hemet on Saturday night. A
bomb threat was radioed in early Sunday.

Riverside County fire communications officials used direction finding
equipment to triangulate the transmissions, but they were initially
untraceable because the threats were made sporadically. Riverside
police were notified Sunday to track the signals Sunday evening, "Levy
boasted that the police would never find her," Richards said.

Hemet police, Cal Fire and Riverside police arrested Levy early Monday
following a recently completed threat on a Hemet police frequency. At
the home police found 11 radios, seven frequency scanners, frequency
lists, computer equipment and Levy's Ham radio technician's license
issued by the FCC in September 2009, Richards said.

Levy was booked at the Larry Smith Detention Center in lieu of $25,000
bail on suspicion of making terrorist threats, falsely reporting a
bomb threat and maliciously interrupting, disrupting, impeding, or
interfering with a transmission of a public radio frequency.

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