The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance arrives at Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach to conduct ordnance operations. (Eli Medellin/US Navy)

(Tribune News Service) — A California man was sentenced Monday, Nov. 4, to one year in prison after pleading guilty to hoaxes alleging that various women planned mass-casualty attacks on U.S. military facilities in Orange County and Los Angeles.

Daniel Sandoval, 29, submitted a false tip to the Department of Defense on March 21, 2021, claiming that a certain woman was planning to detonate bombs and carry out a mass attack at a US Navy installation in Seal Beach, according to his plea agreement. .

Over the next few days, Sandoval submitted seven additional tips falsely accusing other women of planning attacks, including bombings and mass shootings, at various military facilities, including a US Army Reserve Center in South El Monte and a military hospital American in Bell Gardens.

The women Sandoval identified in the fake tips were identified only by initials in court documents.

“(Sandoval’s) unlawful conduct harmed not only the military bases he targeted and the personnel who live or work on those bases, but also the innocent women he claimed were making these dangerous threats,” prosecutors argued in the -a sentencing memorandum, according to a Department of Justice Press Release.

He also acknowledged in his plea agreement that his conduct significantly disrupted public and government functions and services, including the evacuation of personnel from a Navy building.

Sandoval, who pleaded guilty in February to one count of false information and hoaxing, was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison.

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