The Mayagüez court extended a protection order on Monday in favor of two university institutions against a man accused of posting alleged threats on social media. The University of Puerto Rico’s Mayagüez Campus (RUM) and Antillean Adventist University reported it in separate press releases. The final protection order against heritage collector Fred Guillont Juarbe was issued under the Anti-Stalking Law at a hearing before Judge Luis Padilla Galiano.
According to a letter circulated by RUM rector Miguel Meléndez Muñoz, after evaluating the evidence at the hearing, the court extended the previously granted precautionary measures and ordered Guillont Juarbe to cease all contact or approach with the campus and its community for three months, subject to extension if necessary. He must refrain from bothering, intimidating, threatening, approaching, stalking, assaulting or interfering with the two institutions, their students, employees, visitors and anyone participating in official activities.
He may not communicate with them by any means, including phone calls, messages, correspondence, social media, electronic means or through third parties, nor enter the grounds or any official activity of either institution. Last week, the institutions reported that Guillont Juarbe had posted threatening statements against their members in a social media video that also showed a firearm.
He was later detained by state and federal agents, El Nuevo Día learned. His statements followed Antillean Adventist University returning archaeological stones he had lent the institution, which he alleges came back in poor condition.