A Long Island man was arrested for leaving dozens of "rambling" messages for Rep. Gary Ackerman (D). According to Newsday, James Guarnaccio had been warned to stop calling the Congressman's Bayside, Queens office, but he "responded by calling the office the next day and threatening local detectives and the F.B.I., Nassau County police said Saturday."
The cops said that the calls were "not threats to" Ackerman, but Guarnaccio pretended to be a FBI agent in his messages. Cops went to the 55-year-old Hicksville home on Thursday to tell him to stop calling or else he'd be arrested, but that apparently wasn't enough: "But between 11:30 p.m. that night and 8:15 a.m. Friday, Guarnaccio made about seven more calls, threatening law enforcement in one of them."
Guarnaccio, who is being held on $180,000 bond or $90,000 cash bail, was charged with aggravated harassment while in a hospital. It's unclear why he's in a hospital, but his mother says, "He didn't make the threats. I just spoke to him."
