Selena Gomez's Stalker Back In LAPD Custody

So, do tell: who would you rather have to deal with - Justin Bieber's fake-baby-mama drama, or his girlfriend Selena Gomez's stalker on the loose?

The Los Angeles Police Department apparently still considers Selena Gomez-stalker Thomas Brodnicki a threat and has taken him back into custody, reports TMZ.

LAPD detectives hope that they can have the 46-year-old Brodnicki re-interview him and gather sufficient evidence to have him placed on a 5150 mental-health hold.

Superior Court Judge Edmund Wilcox Clarke Jr. ruled following a Nov. 16 probable cause hearing that Brodnicki's death threats to the former star of Disney's "Wizards of Waverly Place" who he allegedly stalked between July and October, before his Oct. 31 arrest, were never meant to actually reach the teen star. Therefore, he dismissed the stalking case against Brodnicki and had him immediately released.

Mental health workers notified authorities that he had claimed he'd kill Gomez while Brodnicki was on a psychiatric hold following his arrest. Brodnicki also told police and a psychiatrist that he'd had conversations with God about killing Gomez.

If the mental health hold takes, a judge could declare him a ward of the state under a conservatorship, before having him transferred back to Illinois, Brodnicki's home state. Brodnicki is still under a civil 100-feet restraining order keeping him from Gomez. Depending on a Nov. 23 hearing's outcome, that order could remain in place for another three years.

Gomez, meanwhile, is under the protection of private security. She wrote in a statement to the court that she has been in "extreme fear" of Brodnicki.