Here are two stories about the the nuke worker one from the L.A. Times, & the L.A. local KCBS channel 2 news. Check out the violations he has been charged with.
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Los Angeles Times: Former Nuclear Worker Charged With Threats

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THE REGION
Former Nuclear Worker Charged With Threats
Court: Man fired from the San Onofre plant also faces weapons and drug counts.
His arraignment is postponed.
By SCOTT MARTELLE and MAI TRAN
TIMES STAFF WRITERS

January 11 2002

Teary-eyed and wearing a yellow jail jumpsuit, former San Onofre nuclear plant
worker David L. Reza stood mute in an Orange County courtroom Thursday as he was
charged with threatening to kill two former co-workers.

Reza, 44, an avid gun collector who had a rocky history with his San Onofre
bosses, faces 13 counts, including making criminal threats, possession of
illegal assault weapons and drug violations. More charges could be filed as
investigators sort through about 270 weapons they reportedly found in Reza's
Laguna Niguel home and a San Juan Capistrano storage garage.

Reza was arrested late Tuesday following an investigation that began after he
told a former co-worker Jan. 4 that he was "going to take my guns, go to San
Onofre and whack a bunch of people." His long hair pulled back in a ponytail,
Reza cried softly through much of his court appearance. He spoke only when
Superior Court Judge Carlton P. Biggs asked if he was David Reza. "Ree-za, sir,"
he corrected.

Arraignment was postponed until Jan. 18. Reza was returned to jail without bond.

He faces up to six years in state prison if convicted of the charges, which
include both felony and misdemeanor counts. He is accused of possessing a
Bushmaster XM-15 assault rifle and an M1 carbine with an illegal pistol hand
grip. He also is charged with illegal possession of tear gas, tracer ammunition,
hand grenades, metal knuckles and a switchblade; and with illegally carrying a
handgun in his car.

Protective Order Issued

Investigators said they found the handgun when Reza arrived home Tuesday
evening. Drug charges were based on cocaine and drug paraphernalia they
allegedly found in the house.

Outside the courtroom, Orange County Deputy Dist. Atty. Elizabeth Henderson said
that Reza was charged with making specific threats against two former colleagues
and that Biggs issued a protective order barring Reza from contacting plant
employees or officials from his union. The Utility Workers Union of America
Local 246 is representing Reza in connection with his December dismissal for
absenteeism.

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They're scared for their lives," Henderson said of the two people Reza
allegedly targeted in his threat.

Reza's girlfriend and roommate, Kristi Mattauch, Thursday repeated earlier
denials that Reza had threatened anyone or that he owned illegal weapons.

"I know it's a misunderstanding," she said, surrounded by a dozen friends and
relatives. "This is a big corporation picking on a small union worker. They've
really blown this all out of proportion."

Reza grew up in the Toledo, Ohio, area but has lived in Southern California
since at least the early 1980s, when he was a Marine stationed at Camp
Pendleton, according to his ex-wife.

Cynthia J. Hoffman, now of Tacoma, Wash., said that she was married to Reza
about two years and that they had a daughter together, who is now 19.

She described the marriage as uneven and said she left California to get away
from Reza.

Hoffman has sued him for unpaid child support and twice had his wages
garnisheed. He was supposed to pay $300 a month in support.

The last time she had contact with him, she said, was last summer, when he sent
a birthday present to their daughter.

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Times staff writer Jack Leonard contributed to this report.
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KCBSFired Nuclear Plant Worker Charged

Charges Include Threatening Supervisors, Weapons Violations, Drug Possession

(LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif.) (CNS) Jan. 10, 2002 9:43 pm
A fired nuclear plant pipefitter was charged Thursday with two counts of
threatening supervisors, nine counts of weapons violations and two counts of
possessing cocaine and a smoking device.

David Lee Reza, 44, dressed in an Orange jail jumpsuit, cried during most of his
brief appearance in a Laguna Niguel court.

Judge Carlton Biggs granted a request to delay Reza's arraignment on the eight
felony and five misdemeanor counts until Jan. 18, to give time for a public
defender to be appointed.

In addition to the felony threat charges, Reza is charged with possession of a
Bushmaster YM-15, an M-1 carbine with pistol grips; tear gas, possessing more
than 2.5 ounces of tear gas; and possessing tracer ammunition with obtaining a
valid permit.

The other charges are possession of a hand grenade, possession of cocaine and a
smoking device, as well as metal knuckles, a switch-blade knife with a blade of
more than 2 inches and possession of a concealed firearm in his vehicle.

Kristi Mattauch told reporters her boyfriend is innocent.

"He was trying to get a check," she said. "And was he angry because he wasn't
getting paid? Absolutely. He threatened to put his foot in someone's behind.

"Why would he?" Mattauch answered when asked if he had threatened to take his
guns to the plant and shoot his former colleagues.

"Edison has messed up again, not Edison corporate, but San Onofre management,"
Mattauch said. "They messed up again and he's going to sue them again. He's
going to win. He had no reason to be upset."

Deputy District Attorney Elizabeth Henderson told reporters Reza faces about a
half dozen years in prison if convicted.

"Maximum penalty for a terrorist threat, which is now called 'criminal threat,'
would be three years in the state prison. And then there would be some
additional amounts of time for assault weapons," Henderson said. "So we're
probably talking in the range of a maximum of about five or six years."

Reza was arrested Tuesday night and held without bail after allegedly calling
someone last Friday and threatening lives at the San Onofre nuclear power plant
in northern San Diego County.

the anonymous third party something like: "They have taken my job, they have
taken my life. I have nothing to lose. I don't have anything to lose. I'll take
my guns and go to San Onofre and whack a bunch of people."

The sheriff's department arrested Reza at his Laguna Niguel home in the 24000
block of Via Verde after the plant security manager relayed the alleged threats
to authorities.

After securing search warrants, deputies found 54 firearms, including assault
weapons, in the suspect's home, sheriff's department officials said.

They also searched Capistrano Properties Self Storage at 26382 Calle Rolando in
San Juan Capistrano early yesterday and found more than 200 additional weapons
-- also including illegal firearms -- belonging to the suspect, and nearly 5,000
rounds of ammunition, according to the department.

Among the firearms were M-16s, an AR-15 assault rifle, four inert grenades, but
with powder to make them active, a used, light anti-tank rocket launcher and
brass knuckles, according to authorities.

Two deputies conducting the storage facility search got sick from CS powder they
inhaled when they opened an ammunition box. They were treated at Mission
Hospital Regional Medical Center in Mission Viejo and released.

Reza began working at the plant in 1984 and had unescorted access to the nuclear
portion of the plant. He was fired in 1995 for unspecified reasons, Golden said.


Reza was reinstated three years later, but worked in a paint shop about three or
four miles from the nuclear area of the plant while waiting to reacquire
clearances that would allow him unescorted access to the nuclear reactor area,
Golden said.

Reza had to undergo FBI, psychological testing and provide references to be
checked, Golden said.

He did not pass the requirements, but could have continued working in the paint
shop, Golden said. But "there were other employment issues" and Reza was fired
last month, Golden said.

(© 2002 City News Service. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be
published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

Both of these would be legal if he had registered them under SB23.