UPDATE: Stockham's Decades of Guns, Terrorism; Restraining Order Filed by Local VFW Member
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Roger Stockham called Imperial Beach home until about a month ago. Arrested last Monday for allegedly trying to blow up a large mosque near Detroit, he has a checkered past fraught with mental health issues, attempted bombings and terrorist acts.
Most recently, local VFW member Pam Miller filed a restraining order against Stockham in Dec. 2010.
A veteran of the Vietnam War, Stockham said he flew helicopter missions for the U.S. Army in his biography on vfwpost5477.com. The biography was recently removed from local post's website.
Miller could not be reached for comment before this story was published but Donnie Pitts, a member of the local VFW for more than a decade, said the restraining order was due to Stockham harassing Miller for having an African-American boyfriend, post commander Michael Smith, who Stockham supposedly also threatened.
According to the Reno Gazette Journal, in 1985, Stockham was arrested after he threw a pipebomb in a trash can at Reno's Cannon International Airport.
During the federal court trial, Stockham said he regularly communicates with extraterrestrials, and psychiatrists testified that he believed he was Christ.
In 1981, he escaped from a mental hospital, and turned himself in four months later.
In 1983, he was released from a state mental hospital after a prosecutor said he hadn’t done anything “crazy” in awhile, the paper's archives show.
A few years before that, he kidnapped his son from a foster home in Santa Barbara, flew a plane towards LAX with a gun and bombs and demanded he be supplied with a plane to fly to Iran.
In 1977, he took his psychiatrist hostage in Century City, CA, again with bombs and guns, but surrendered after a standoff with police.
Over the years, he also threatened to kill Presidents Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush.
Stockham's neighbors said last fall he was stabbed in his apartment on 7th Street. It is not yet known whether the wounds were self-inflicted.
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Most recently, local VFW member Pam Miller filed a restraining order against Stockham in Dec. 2010.
A veteran of the Vietnam War, Stockham said he flew helicopter missions for the U.S. Army in his biography on vfwpost5477.com. The biography was recently removed from local post's website.
Miller could not be reached for comment before this story was published but Donnie Pitts, a member of the local VFW for more than a decade, said the restraining order was due to Stockham harassing Miller for having an African-American boyfriend, post commander Michael Smith, who Stockham supposedly also threatened.
According to the Reno Gazette Journal, in 1985, Stockham was arrested after he threw a pipebomb in a trash can at Reno's Cannon International Airport.
During the federal court trial, Stockham said he regularly communicates with extraterrestrials, and psychiatrists testified that he believed he was Christ.
In 1981, he escaped from a mental hospital, and turned himself in four months later.
In 1983, he was released from a state mental hospital after a prosecutor said he hadn’t done anything “crazy” in awhile, the paper's archives show.
A few years before that, he kidnapped his son from a foster home in Santa Barbara, flew a plane towards LAX with a gun and bombs and demanded he be supplied with a plane to fly to Iran.
In 1977, he took his psychiatrist hostage in Century City, CA, again with bombs and guns, but surrendered after a standoff with police.
Over the years, he also threatened to kill Presidents Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush.
Stockham's neighbors said last fall he was stabbed in his apartment on 7th Street. It is not yet known whether the wounds were self-inflicted.
click the link and read more + video
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