The New York Stock Exchange is one building Dejesus Cruz threatened to bomb. (DNAinfo/Mariel Clark)By Della Hasselle
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — An East Harlem man who claimed bombers were targeting the New York Stock Exchange and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has been arrested.
Dejesus Cruz, 59, allegedly called police over five months, making rambling, nonsensical claims that bombs had been planted at Gracie Mansion, the Stock Exchange, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association building and in Kelly’s car, the New York Post reported.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, whose car was threatened by hoax bomber. (DNAinfo/Josh Williams)“There’s a bomb in Ray Kelly’s car, and I’m the hostage behind it. Tell them to come and save my a—when the bomb blows up,” Cruz said in a phone call, according to a Manhattan Criminal Court complaint.
He made several 911 calls from pay phones in East Harlem and the Upper East Side between Feb. 15 and July 17, the complaint states.
Cruz said he made the calls because he thought the government was making him take methadone and stealing his thoughts, and he wanted the FBI to help him out, the Post reported.
He was arrested and charged with nine counts of aggravated harassment and falsely reporting an incident.
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