Guard Sentenced for Bomb Threats at NBA Office

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A private security guard who called in bomb threats to a National Basketball Association office in northern New Jersey that he was hired to protect has been sentenced to six months in prison.

Jose Quesada also must serve six months of home confinement once he's freed and then three years of supervised release under the sentence imposed Wednesday.

He had pleaded guilty in November 2010 to knowingly providing false information indicating that malicious damage by means of an explosive would take place.

Prosecutors say the 20-year-old Elizabeth resident made several calls from his cell phone threatening to blow up the NBA Properties office in Secaucus over a two-day period beginning July 26, 2010.

The offices were evacuated, but no explosives were found.