People v. Dumbrava CA4/3

FACTS

In 2019, law enforcement officers interviewed Dumbrava as a result of threatening comments he posted on social media and thereafter transported Dumbrava to UCI Medical Center (UCI). After he entered the hospital, an employee came out and requested the officers write an application for Dumbrava to be evaluated for a 72-hour 1 hold as authorized by Welfare and Institutions Code section 5150. Dumbrava was placed on an involuntary hold, and then transferred to Canyon Ridge Hospital (Canyon Ridge), and involuntarily admitted to the hospital on the basis of being a danger to others. He was assessed and stayed at this facility until he was released two days later, when he was given a written advisement explaining he could not legally possess a firearm absent court authorization.

1 All further undesignated statutory references are to the Welfare and Institutions Code.

2 In 2020, after being alerted to Dumbrava’s Twitter account which contained threats against the University of Irvine and campus police, law enforcement officers executed a search warrant on Dumbrava’s bedroom. Inside a storage container, they found a locked duffel bag containing firearm components, a jig kit, tools…