UPDATED: Lake Elsinore Man Convicted Of Threatening To Kill City Official Gets Probation

UPDATED at 3:33 p.m. Aug. 13, 2013: A Lake Elsinore man who threatened to kill a code enforcement official who cited him for failing to maintain his property was sentenced today to three years probation and 99 days in a work release program run by the sheriff's department.

Norman Andrew Park, 55, was also ordered to enroll in an anger management program, according to court records.

Park was convicted July 16 of threatening the life of a municipal official, a felony. Jurors acquitted Park of misdemeanor counts of brandishing a gun and resisting arrest following a nearly weeklong trial.

The case stems from a combative encounter between Park and a Department of Code Enforcement officer last Dec. 17.

City officials had cited the defendant in September for failing to clean up his single-story residence at 315 N. Poe St. According to investigators, every face-to-face meeting with Park ended with him turning hostile.

When Park failed to comply with the abatement order, the city fined him, at which point the defendant went to City Hall and told an official that he would put him and his co-workers in "body bags" if he ever saw them again, according to witnesses. --City News Service