TOMS RIVER – The man who achieved a degree of fame by climbing the Jet Star roller coaster after it sank in Superstorm Sandy has been arrested for threatening to kill police officers.
Christopher Angulo, 46, of Toms River, was charged with making Terroristic Threats During a Declared State of Emergency, according to the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office. Charges are merely accusations until proven in a court of law.
On July 22, Angulo allegedly contacted the Prosecutor’s Office and made threats that he was going to kill police officers, the report said. Detectives went to his house and he was taken into custody without incident.
Exactly a month earlier, Angulo had climbed the Skyscraper ride to protest police.
He has had a rocky relationship with law enforcement.
After Superstorm Sandy, Angulo had been arrested then for disorderly conduct after mounting an American flag on the coaster.
According to his own Facebook page, a Bay Head police report states that Angulo threatened to kill a police officer with a pair of scissors during a child custody dispute. Angulo says the police put words in his mouth.
He was arrested again on March 2, 2020 for allegedly assaulting a cop during a town meeting. Angulo was arrested for disrupting a Public Meeting, Disorderly Conduct, and Aggravated Assault on a Law Enforcement Officer.
On his own Facebook page, Angulo said that the charges were lies.
He posts a lot of his conflicts with police on social media and on Youtube, including one when he was protesting outside of an Asbury Park restaurant that he said gave him food poisoning.
