500 Wyoming Ave. — Reported Residence Connected To Alleged Threats
A 27-year-old Staten Island man is sitting in a New York City jail awaiting extradition to Luzerne County after investigators say he threatened to kill his ex-girlfriend and her new partner and to blow up the nursing school she attends in Plains Township. Divine Christopher Torres was taken into custody on Oct. 15 by New York State parole agents, and he now faces a stack of charges from two separate Pennsylvania police departments.
According to the Times Leader, Torres is charged with repeatedly threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend and her paramour, and with threatening to blow up the Wilkes-Barre Career and Technical Center, where the woman is enrolled as a nursing student. Plains Township police obtained an arrest warrant alleging that Torres threatened to kill everyone and blow up the school if his ex-girlfriend remained enrolled there. Torres had also recently been found in violation of protection-from-abuse court orders the woman had obtained against him in Luzerne County…