Authorities Looking Into Threats Allegedly Made by Trump Supporters Against WeHo Mayor

WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA -- The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department on Thursday is looking into threats made against West Hollywood mayor allegedly by Donald Trump supporters a week after she published a letter telling the GOP frontrunner he is not welcome in town.

In the letter, published last Monday in the Advocate, a gay newsmagazine, Mayor Lindsay Horvath said Trump and his campaign are not welcome in the LGBT-friendly city because of the "hate speech and implicit calls to violence" from the campaign.

Shortly after the letter was published, the entire West Hollywood City Council received an email implying that Horvath had a secret abortion and contained links to graphic abortion videos.

Horvath told Patch the email was an intimidation tactic because of her support for Planned Parenthood in West Hollywood and a woman's right to choose. She also suspected then a Trump supporter was behind the email.

In the week since Horvath said she's been getting threatening messages allegedly from Trump supporters in response to the letter via email and on social media.

"One person threatened to gut me like a fish," Horvath told Patch. "This is the kind of the language that is indicative of the type of supporters that Mr. Trump attracts."

And that is part of the reasons why she didn't want to Trump campaign in West Hollywood.

Horvath has turned the threatening emails over to the West Hollywood Sheriff's Station. Horvath said it was standard procedure for her to turn over any threatening messages that are violent in nature.

The department has started a preliminary investigation into the matter to see if any laws have been broken, sheriff's Lt. Sergio Aloma said

"We're looking to determine if the messages rise the level of a crime," he said. "We need to see if they are protected by the First Amendment versus the stuff that crosses the line."

Aloma said the department's Criminal Intelligence Unit has been consulted to determine the best way to move forward.

At this time, "we don't know where or who the messages are coming from," he said.

Patch has reached out to the Trump campaign for comments and will update when we hear back.