An alleged stalker armed with enough armor piercing bullets and guns to take on a small army was talked into surrendering peacefully, authorities said Monday.
The incident began Sunday around 9:40 a.m. when Long Beach Police Department East Division Officers got a call from a local woman who feared for not only her life, but the lives of her entire family and friends, said Nancy Pratt, a Long Beach Police Department spokeswoman.
The victim told officers that her ex-boyfriend, 43-year-old Dy Khensouvann of Long Beach, had threatened to kill her and everyone she knew. He had made the threats both in person and via messages left on her cell phone, Pratt said.
The victim was so terrified, she told officers, that she fled her East Long Beach home, near Wardlow and Studebaker roads, and was staying at another location unknown to Khensouvann.
The officers were able to figure out Khensouvann's license plate number and broadcast it and a description of the suspect to all units in the field, Pratt said.
As they continued to interview the victim, she received a phone call from an acquaintance warning her that Khensouvann's 2005 green GMC pickup truck was parked down the street from her home, which sits near El Dorado Park.
The patrol officers then called Khensouvann on his cell phone, and the suspect admitted he was inside in the victim's home, Pratt said.
"The officers were able to talk to the suspect and convince him to come out of the residence and surrender peacefully," Pratt said. "Based on the circumstances, it is very possible that the suspect planned to act on his threats."
That became apparent when officers found the man had rifle rounds strapped to his body and he had a rifle in his truck with a full magazine stocked with armor-piercing bullets.
When police served a search warrant at the suspect's home, located near Tenth Street and Obispo, they found assault rifles and metal-piercing ammunition, Pratt said.
Khensouvann was arrested on suspicion of multiple felony counts including stalking, making criminal threats, residential burglary, possession of armor-penetrating rounds, possession of a concealed weapon in the vehicle, possession of assault rifles and possession of firearms with metal-piercing rounds, Pratt said.
His bail has been set at $1,050,000 and he is scheduled to be arraigned today at the Long Beach Superior Court, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Inmate Information Center.
"The officers did everything right here ... and took a potentially extremely dangerous individual off the streets," Pratt said.
The incident began Sunday around 9:40 a.m. when Long Beach Police Department East Division Officers got a call from a local woman who feared for not only her life, but the lives of her entire family and friends, said Nancy Pratt, a Long Beach Police Department spokeswoman.
The victim told officers that her ex-boyfriend, 43-year-old Dy Khensouvann of Long Beach, had threatened to kill her and everyone she knew. He had made the threats both in person and via messages left on her cell phone, Pratt said.
The victim was so terrified, she told officers, that she fled her East Long Beach home, near Wardlow and Studebaker roads, and was staying at another location unknown to Khensouvann.
The officers were able to figure out Khensouvann's license plate number and broadcast it and a description of the suspect to all units in the field, Pratt said.
As they continued to interview the victim, she received a phone call from an acquaintance warning her that Khensouvann's 2005 green GMC pickup truck was parked down the street from her home, which sits near El Dorado Park.
The patrol officers then called Khensouvann on his cell phone, and the suspect admitted he was inside in the victim's home, Pratt said.
"The officers were able to talk to the suspect and convince him to come out of the residence and surrender peacefully," Pratt said. "Based on the circumstances, it is very possible that the suspect planned to act on his threats."
That became apparent when officers found the man had rifle rounds strapped to his body and he had a rifle in his truck with a full magazine stocked with armor-piercing bullets.
When police served a search warrant at the suspect's home, located near Tenth Street and Obispo, they found assault rifles and metal-piercing ammunition, Pratt said.
Khensouvann was arrested on suspicion of multiple felony counts including stalking, making criminal threats, residential burglary, possession of armor-penetrating rounds, possession of a concealed weapon in the vehicle, possession of assault rifles and possession of firearms with metal-piercing rounds, Pratt said.
His bail has been set at $1,050,000 and he is scheduled to be arraigned today at the Long Beach Superior Court, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Inmate Information Center.
"The officers did everything right here ... and took a potentially extremely dangerous individual off the streets," Pratt said.
THE LBPD SHOULD HAVE SHOT THIS SOB BECAUSE WHEN HE GETS OUT...HIS EX WILL PAY THE PRICE.
SOMETIMES THE COPS NEED TO DO WHAT THEY NEED TO DO AND IN THIS CASE, THEY SHOULD HAVE PUT THAT MANIAC TO SLEEP.
BRETT SHEPHERD
ATLANTA, GA
Glad you live in Alabamie Mr. Shepherd. You sound just as nuts as this stalker. P.S. Turn your cap locks off.
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