The FCC Enforcement Bureau ordered a $25,000 forfeiture against...
The FCC Enforcement Bureau ordered a $25,000 forfeiture against Estevan Gutierrez for “willfully and maliciously” broadcasting obscenities and threats against police officers in Las Vegas, N.M., over the Las Vegas Police Department’s main dispatch channel, interfering with police transmissions, said…
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a forfeiture order (http://bit.ly/1936VcJ). In February 2011, a San Diego Enforcement Bureau agent used an FCC Mobile Direction Finding vehicle to help LVPD officers track the transmissions to a hand-held radio operated by Gutierrez and tuned to the LVPD’s main dispatch channel of 159.150 MHz, said a notice of apparent liability issued in 2011 (http://fcc.us/16KiY1K). Though Gutierrez asked the commission to reduce the fine because of his inability to pay, the bureau said he produced no evidence demonstrating a lack of funds, and adjusted the fine upwards because of the severity of the offense. “There is nothing on the record in this case that warrants any leniency or mitigation of the proposed forfeiture amount, given the undisputed evidence that Mr. Gutierrez willfully and maliciously interfered with the public safety radio operations of the LVPD for multiple days, and only stopped after he was apprehended and arrested,” said the order.