NYPD Arrests Seven for Threats After Slayings of Officers
The department has been on alert since the Dec. 20 shooting deaths of two officers.
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At least seven New Yorkers have been charged with making threats against police officers since the Dec. 20 killing of two patrolmen shot in their squad car in Brooklyn, a police spokeswoman said.
Six were charged with making terroristic threats through social media or in direct phone calls to police, said Officer Sophia Mason, a police spokeswoman. The seventh, Elvin Payamps, 38, of Queens, was arrested yesterday on charges of possession of marijuana and illegal gun possession after a witness said he overheard Payamps talking on his mobile phone about killing police, she said.