Diamond Bar: April 2008 Archives

Brian Miller pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor charges of telephone harassment. A poster here the other day claimed Miller pleaded guilty in the case. The poster was wrong.

Here's a portion of Dan Abendschein's story:

POMONA - The ex-boyfriend of a woman who has disappeared with their three children was pleaded not guilty on Thursday to making annoying telephone calls to the fugitive's father.

Brian Miller , the son of Rep. Gary Miller , R-Brea, allegedly made harassing calls to Jude Lopez of Diamond Bar, the father of Jennifer Dejongh, who had three kids with Miller .

The charge is for making repeated calls with "intent to annoy another person at his or her residence."

Dejongh has been a fugitive for several months after disobeying a custody order and disappearing with the kids in November.

Jude Lopez tipped me off to this case last night. Here's a copy of an email he sent:

Do you remember me telling you about the annoying phone calls that our family had been receiving for the last few months?  The numbers were restricted but Verizon traced them at our request and sent them to the police.  Some of the calls were threatening but I am not sure if they were traced to him.  Here is the information we received from court.

The email came with this .pdf file from the court.

Brian Miller Phone Calls.pdf

Finally there's this story we've posted on line as of noon:

The ex-boyfriend of a woman, who has disappeared with their three kids, was arrested last month for a making annoying telephone calls to the fugitive's father, records show.

Brian Miller, the son of Rep. Gary Miller, R-Diamond Bar, allegedly made harassing calls to Jude Lopez, the father of Jennifer DeJongh, who had three kids with Miller.

The charge, for making repeated calls to "intent to annoy another person at his or her residence," is a misdemeanor.

Dejongh has been a fugitive for several months after disobeying a custody order and disappearing with the kids in November.

Lopez said that he received about 30 calls in the months following Dejongh's disappearance, including three threatening calls.

He said he used a Verizon phone company service to set up the calls to be traced.

Sherrie Davidson, who works in the law offices of Antonio Bestard, who is representing Miller, said that police used the Verizon data as the basis for the charges.

Lopez said he was not sure if Miller was involved in the threatening calls or just calling in and hanging up.

"The threats sounded like they were coming from a disguised voice," said Lopez. "I don't know if it was him, or maybe someone else he knew, or someone else entirely."