Former Naval Undersea Warfare Center Worker Charged With Making Threats To Colleagues, Police

A former employee of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center at U.S. Naval Station Newport in Rhode Island has been charged with making threats against colleagues, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Rhode Island said.

Luis Sanchez Pardella, 38, of Newport, is charged with transmitting a threat in interstate commerce for allegedly making “numerous menacing, and at times threatening” phone calls to at least eight of his former colleagues at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, prosecutors said.

Between July 2022 and February 2023, Pardella allegedly made threats to at least eight people, including one voicemail stating, “I will kill you and your wife when I see you on the street.”

Between December 2022 and February 2023, Pardella allegedly made multiple threatening phone calls to the Portsmouth Police Department stating that an officer and his wife “will be going to jail,” that “the Portsmouth Police Department is corrupt,” and “write down (name of officers wife) is dead write down. The wife of one of your cops is dead. Do you know who (name redacted) is? Write down she is dead.”

After appearing before a judge on Tuesday, Pardella was released with GPS monitoring and ordered to have no contact with any of the identified victims.