LAS VEGAS — A person accused of threatening mass violence at a parade final weekend celebrating the Vegas Golden Knights victory within the NHL Stanley Cup championship was ordered Wednesday to stay jailed until he can publish $55,000 bail and enroll in a high-level digital monitoring program.

Anthony Zuccaro, 31, remained in custody following court docket appearances in separate circumstances alleging that he broken Nevada State Police automobiles along with his motorbike and threatened to both drive a truck into throngs of hockey followers or use gasoline bombs to injure police and revelers on the Las Vegas Strip.

Zuccaro’s circumstances are separate from one involving a 33-year-old man with a historical past of psychological sickness who was arrested and jailed final week after allegedly threatening a mass taking pictures in the course of the Stanley Cup ultimate recreation on June 13.

“I’m not dangerous,” Zuccaro stated in the course of the first of two appearances earlier than completely different judges Wednesday in Las Vegas Justice Court. Standing in shackles as he confronted felony automobile harm and misdemeanor reckless driving prices within the state police automobile harm case, Zuccaro added that he was “building a life in Las Vegas.”

Prosecutor Taylor Reeves instructed the choose that Zuccaro works at a Las Vegas on line casino and was from New York however has lived in Nevada for nearly two years.

Zuccaro was arraigned minutes later earlier than a separate choose on a felony false risk cost alleging an act of terrorism threatening the Golden Knights parade.

According to a Las Vegas police report, Zuccaro was arrested at dwelling after 2 a.m. Saturday following a sequence of audio-recorded phone calls to disaster hotlines in Nevada and Arizona by which he allegedly admitted he had smashed home windows and facet mirrors of police automobiles.

Zuccaro’s “comments became more and more violent,” police stated a disaster assist employee instructed investigators, “until he started making statements that he intends on carrying out a mass attack … on Las Vegas Boulevard during a parade celebrating the Staley Cup victory” after which induce police to shoot him useless.

“He further stated that he was targeting the event due to the presence of many cameras” and that “his estranged girlfriend and her new boyfriend would also be present,” the police report stated. “He hoped to incite mass panic and many deaths.”

Two public protection attorneys who individually represented Zuccaro in his circumstances didn't reply to e-mail messages about whether or not they would search a psychological well being analysis to find out Zuccaro’s competency to face prices.

The judges set his subsequent court docket dates for July 5 and July 6.

In the taking pictures risk case, a state court docket choose is due on July 12 to contemplate ordering a forensic analysis by state psychiatrists of Matthew Michael DeSavio, 33.

DeSavio is accused of threatening to “shoot up” the Golden Knights recreation in opposition to the Florida Panthers at T-Mobile Arena. He allegedly described in textual content messages, telephone calls and social media posts his intent to hold out a bloodbath corresponding to a October 2017 mass taking pictures on the Strip that killed 60 individuals and injured greater than 850 - the deadliest mass taking pictures in trendy U.S. historical past.

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