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Threats on SeaWorld bring arrest
A man is fired, then jailed, after co-workers report his comments.
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published April 27, 2007
ORLANDO - A SeaWorld employee threatened the park with a shooting rampage like the Virginia Tech massacre, leading to his arrest and firing, officials said Thursday. Gilbert Alexander Garcia allegedly told one co-worker Sunday, "I am going to do what happened at Virginia Tech here at SeaWorld." Two hours after Garcia was fired Monday and escorted from the park, he allegedly called a co-worker and said he was mad and was plotting revenge. The phone call was recorded and turned over to investigators. Garcia said in the taped call he was "going to blow up SeaWorld," officials said. Garcia, 20, of Orlando, was arrested a few hours later at his home and charged with threatening a place with a destructive device, a felony. Garcia insisted he was joking, the sheriff's report said. "It may be a joke to you, but it's not a joke to us," sheriff's Detective Kelly Boaz said. "How do we know he was kidding?"
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by John
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04/27/07 04:40 PM
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What did Shamu ever do to you?
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by Danielle
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04/27/07 04:20 PM
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Thank you! I personally am tired of people making sick comments like his and then when they are confronted about it they say they are only joking. Congrats to the Orlando's Sherriff's DEPT for getting it right! May Garcia get the help he needs!
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by kc
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04/27/07 01:37 PM
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during this time and date there's no excuses for joking this way especially after what happened at v tech i guess he will think b4 he jokes again
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by sam
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04/27/07 12:39 PM
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put him away. so he can't hurt some one. he made the threat not once but two times.
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by Jeri
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04/27/07 11:09 AM
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He wasn't.It's easy to say that after the fact. I wonder if this guy is an illegal. Put the idiot away.
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