JMH Employee Arrested For Threatening Hospital

MIAMI, FL — A 22-year-old Jackson Memorial Hospital secretary was charged Friday night with threatening to kill coworkers in a 9-1-1 call. Juvane Raheem Hylton was charged with making a false report about a bomb or explosive and misuse of 9-1-1 emergency communications. He allegedly made the threat on June 29 from a patient's room.

"He made the call from a patient's room during a time when the patient was out for a medical procedure," Detective Lee Cowart of the Miami-Dade Police Department told Patch. "They traced it back to that room."

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Cowart said that he did not immediately know why Hylton made the call from hospital room 533. But police briefly detained another man immediately following the incident. That man was later released.

A similar threat was also received on Monday at JHM but Hylton has not been charged in connection with that incident. Additional threats appear to have been made against other area healthcare facilities around the same time.

Detective Argemis Colome of the Miami-Dade Police Department previously told Patch that no one was injured in any of the threats at JMH and that the hospital remained open as officers conducted a floor-by-floor search of the facility on both days.

"This guy called and said he was going to shoot up the staff because they hurt his mother," Colome told Patch after the June 29 threat, adding that the initial threat was received at 1:32 p.m.

Jackson Memorial Hospital is the major teaching facility for the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine with more than 1,550 licensed beds. It is also home to Ryder Trauma Center, which is the only adult and pediatric Level 1 trauma center in Miami-Dade County.

The June 29 incident came one day after a lone gunman killed five people at The Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland.

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