{"id":454435,"date":"2026-09-05T11:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T11:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/454435\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T11:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T11:22:08","slug":"california-man-faces-trial-for-alleged-jewish-community-center-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/454435\/","title":{"rendered":"California man faces trial for alleged Jewish community center threats"},"content":{"rendered":"

A California court ruled this week that there is sufficient evidence to prosecute Paul Dean Andrews, 43, of Lomita, for allegedly threatening to carry out a shooting at a Jewish community center<\/a> in the LA suburb of Redondo Beach, the LA County District Attorney\u2019s Office announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Andrews has pleaded not guilty to the charges, but following a preliminary hearing, the court ordered that he stand trial. He is being held on $275,000 bail and faces more than nine years in prison if convicted on all charges.<\/p>\n

According to prosecutors, over three days in August, Andrews allegedly called the Jewish center multiple times and made antisemitic<\/a> statements, including: “We don\u2019t want Jews in South Bay. Jews. Get out of South Bay.”<\/p>\n

In one of the calls, he allegedly threatened<\/a> one of the center\u2019s managers, saying: “Get out of the neighborhood. I know where you are. I know you\u2019re on Vail Street. I know there are a lot of children there. I will come and open fire at the place.”<\/p>\n

The case is not Andrews\u2019 first criminal offense. In 2023, he was charged with assault with a semi-automatic weapon and the grossly negligent discharge of a firearm. A judge allowed him to enter a rehabilitation program and required him to complete an anti-bias program at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

“The defendant was given an opportunity to confront his prejudices, but chose not to do so,” Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said.<\/p>\n

Instead of completing the program, Andrews allegedly called the museum and a local synagogue in May 2024. In a message left for the museum, he said: “You will never be real Americans. All Jews should be hanged from trees.”<\/p>\n

He also left two messages for the synagogue, saying: “Get the h*** out of San Pedro. San Pedro belongs to Catholics. We don\u2019t want Jews in our city.”<\/p>\n

Following the incidents<\/a>, the rehabilitation process was canceled, and Andrews was sentenced to 16 months in prison. His supervised release ended in June.<\/p>\n

The case was investigated by the Redondo Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A California court ruled this week that there is sufficient evidence to prosecute Paul Dean Andrews, 43, of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3629,7,9,8,7624,36698,47,435],"class_list":["post-454435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-antisemitism","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-diaspora","tag-hate-crime","tag-los-angeles","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}