UPDATED: GPD arrests suspect of June 5 and 6 bomb threats
The Guam Police Department has arrested 29-year-old Kevin Ventura Galvez in connection to a series of bomb threats made on June 5 and 6, according to a statement by acting GPD public information officer Sgt. Paul S.N. Tapao.
Detectives with GPD's Juvenile Investigation Section conducted follow ups which led to the discovery of a phone number used to call in the threats and were able to identify a person of interest, their place of employment, and home address the statement said.
GPD made a home check in Dededo, in which Galvez was located and was later transported to the GPD Headquarters in Tiyan. Police were also able to confiscate a cellphone at the residents.
Galvez was later arrested and charged with:
Terroristic conduct;
Making false reports; and
False alarm.
His case has been forwarded the Office of the Attorney General of Guam for prosecution.
Bomb threats were made at the Micronesia Mall's Food Court and Payless Supermarket and the Hotel Nikko Guam, on the night of June 5.
The following day, threats were also made at the Guam Premier Outlets, Agana Shopping Center, the Dusit Thani Guam Resort, and the Office of the Governor, all of which prompting large scale evacuations of the site.
Dusit Thani Guam Resort was temporarily closed following a reported bomb threat on June 6. Photo by Skyler Obispo
According to Krystal Paco-San Agustin, the governor of Guam’s director of communications on June 6, the bomb threats had canceled all public events scheduled for that day.
The Guam International Airport Authority's and GPD's K-9 units have been deployed to investigate the threats, GPD said on June 6 also. mbj
During a detailed presentation at the 32nd Pacific Islands Environmental Training Symposium on June 10 at the Crowne Plaza Resort Saipan Guam presenters raised alarm bells at the widespread presence of toxic “forever chemicals” during a presentation on Guam’s Safe Drinking Water Program.
Guam’s government leaders and agency heads called for modernizing the island’s outdated procurement laws, but also pointed to key successes showing how careful planning and teamwork can make even a complex system work.
Guam’s smaller contractors are building positive profiles for military construction work in Guam. Meanwhile, military exercises in the region continue to bring military personnel to the islands.
Members of the business community packed the Guam Congress Building on June 9 for the public hearing of Bill 11-38, a measure to lower the Guam business privilege tax rate from 5% to 4%.
