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UPDATE: VA EMPLOYEE GETS PROBATION AFTER
MACHINE
GUN THREATS -- An employee of the VA nursing home
in San
Francisco has been placed on three years of
probation after
threatening to buy a machine gun and kill
everyone there.
For background on this story, click here...
http://www.vawatchdog.org/08/nf08
/nfAUG08/nf080808-7.htm
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin
/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/11/BAI014ME6D.DTL
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VA employee gets probation after machine gun
threats
Henry K. Lee
Chronicle Staff Writer
An employee of a Department of Veterans Affairs nursing home in San
Francisco has been placed on three years of probation after threatening to
buy a machine gun and kill everyone there, court records show.
Felicisimo Belleza, 41, pleaded guilty in August to a misdemeanor charge
of threatening an officer of the United States.
 At
a hearing this week in San Francisco, U.S. Magistrate Joseph Spero ordered
Belleza to participate in a mental-health program and to stay 100 yards
away from the VA facility in San Francisco.
On July 31, he made the threatening statement to a benefit counselor at
the VA's Palo Alto hospital, Special Agent Lori Pang of the VA's Office of
Inspector General wrote in an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in
San Francisco.
Later that day, VA police saw Belleza dressed in desert fatigue clothing
"similar to what the soldiers wear in Iraq" at the VA's nursing home on
Clement Street in San Francisco, Pang wrote.
Nine days earlier, Belleza threatened to harm employees at the nursing
home after receiving a proposed termination letter "due to abusiveness to
the nursing home staff, sexual harassment, inappropriate touching of staff
and making threats," Pang wrote.
 During
the July 22 meeting, Belleza said that he believed the veterans were not
receiving proper care and that the VA police were always following him
around the hospital grounds, authorities said.
The police were following him because of his
behavior toward his co-workers, investigators said.
As a result of Belleza's threats, the staff and personnel at the hospital
were "placed in fear," and police increased security around the nursing
home by adding cameras, locking some doors and disabling the automatic
front door, authorities said.
E-mail Henry K. Lee at
hlee@sfchronicle.com.
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posted by Larry Scott
Founder and Editor
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