Former Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Brian K. Williams pleaded guilty Monday to a federal charge linked to a fake bomb threat he made to City Hall last year.
Williams entered a plea in downtown Los Angeles to a single federal count of threats regarding fire and explosives, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
LAPD officers responded to City Hall to investigate the threat Williams reported. Police searched the building and did not locate any suspicious packages or devices. Williams described to police the threatening call he claimed to have received, showed them the record of an incoming call that appeared as a blocked number on his city-issued cell phone and said it was the unknown man who conveyed the threat, court papers show.
In fact, that incoming call record was the call Williams had placed to himself from the Google Voice app on his personal cell phone, federal prosecutors said.
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