Parolee jailed in bomb threat to parole office
Suspect went to prison for role in 2007 home invasion, shootings
Albuquerque police say a parolee who went to prison for a 2007 home invasion is behind bars again, this time for threatening to blow up the parole office.
Erik Starr, 29, who was taken into custody Thursday, is charged with making a bomb threat.
Starr called in a bomb threat to police this week, just days before he was due to go in for a drug screening, according to a criminal complaint filed in Metropolitan Court.
Police say that during the call, Starr told the dispatcher he wanted to “make a bomb threat” to the parole office and “I’m going to blow that (expletive) up today or tomorrow.”
The call was traced to Starr’s phone, and police were sent to his address, according to the complaint.
Officers arrested Starr outside his home with the phone in his pocket.
Starr told police “that phone is not mine” and told them he found it on a bus.
“I had (Albuquerque Police Department) dispatch call the number the threat originated from,” an officer wrote. “The phone which Starr had upon his person began to ring.”
In 2007, Albuquerque police arrested Starr as one of two suspects in a home invasion in Northeast Albuquerque during which a woman was shot in the forehead and in the chest three times, while her father was shot in the leg, according to a 2010 Journal story. He pleaded guilty in 2010 to kidnapping, aggravated battery and armed robbery in the case.
The other suspect, Adam DeLuna, killed himself two days after the break-in on a rooftop, near Central and Coors NW, after he was surrounded by police, the story reads.