Henry Nolkemper arrested
Henry Nolkemper, 61, of Los Angeles, California, United States is described by police reports as a white male. He had a criminal history and context with mental health, according to Los Angeles Police Department assistant chief Blake Chow.
At around 9:25 p.m. on March 28, 2024, Nolkemper called the National Suicide Hotline and identified himself as Henry. At the time, he was on probation for previous threats to the community.
During the recorded phone call, Nolkemper made several statements regarding the bombing of the TransLatin@ Coalition business in Los Angeles on Juneteenth, a federal holiday in the U.S. every June 19. The group advocates for transgender, gender non-conforming and intersex (TGI) Latinx communities.
On April 11, 2024, Nolkemper was arrested at his residence in Los Angeles. He was charged with making a false bomb threat and criminal threats with a hate crime enhancement.
Bail for Nolkemper was set at $1 million and his parole was revoked. His mug shot was not released.
Alejandra Nolkemper released
In 1983, Henry Nolkemper, then 19, of Los Angeles was convicted of second-degree burglary. He and law office file clerk Farryl Kamai, then 20, served time for a string of church burglaries and vandalisms and were released.
On September 16, 1984, Nolkemper, Kamai and unemployed construction worker Daniel Behrens, then 24, were arrested after allegedly vandalizing and robbing churches, mostly of Protestant denominations, throughout Los Angeles. On September 17, 1984, they pleaded innocent to charges of burglary and receiving stolen property from break-ins committed at churches.
In 1987, over a five-day period, Nolkemper and an accomplice burglarized two occupied residences. He fired his gun at two homeowners. He was arrested and sentenced to nine years in prison.
In 1992, while incarcerated in state prison, Nolkemper was convicted of committing battery on a correctional officer and sentenced to two years in state prison. In May 1994, he was released on parole.
In December 1994, Nolkemper returned to prison for violating parole. In August 1996, he was paroled again.
Between April 1997 and May 1997, Nolkemper and another accomplice burglarized five different churches. He was arrested then he represented himself and pleaded guilty to five counts of burglary.
On January 29, 1999, Nolkemper faced 129 years to life in prison on five burglary counts but prosecutors dismissed four counts and sentenced him to only 25 years in prison. Later in prison, he identified as a pre-operative male-to-female transgender woman, adopted the first name Alejandra and changed his pronoun.
In 2001, Alejandra was convicted of battery by a prisoner and in 2005, she was convicted of aggravated battery. While in prison, she committed batteries in 2004 and in 2008 in order to be housed in the security housing unit.
In 2012, Alejandra was convicted of assault by a prisoner on a non-prisoner. As of December 2013, she had a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) classification score of 716.
On June 2, 2014, Alejandra initiated a petition to recall her sentence. The trial court conducted a suitability hearing on August 31, 2016 and denied her petition.
Professor Jennifer Orthwein, PhD interviewed Alejandra and administered psychological tests. According to the former, the latter was suffering from gender dysphoria and post traumatic stress disorder.
In 2020, Alejandra filed a petition to recall her sentence again. On May 15, 2023, Michael Romano announced that Alejandra was released from the Folsom California State Prison in Folsom, California.
Romano is the director of the Three Strikes Project of Stanford Law School in Stanford, California, which referred to Alejandra as its client. Whether or not she and the Henry Nolkemper recently arrested in Los Angeles are the same person has yet to be confirmed.
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