UPDATED - Feds arrest suspect behind at least 8 bomb threats against Jewish community centers
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Source: RawStory
BRAD REED
03 MAR 2017 AT 09:33 ET
Law enforcement officials are set to announce that an arrest has been made of the man who is allegedly responsible for a wave of bomb threats that have been made this year against Jewish community centers.
ABC Newss Dan Linden is reporting that both the FBI and the New York City police department have confirmed that a 31-year-old man named Juan Thompson has been arrested for allegedly being behind at least eight different threats to Jewish community centers. The suspect was arrested by FBI officials in St. Louis, Linden reports.
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NBC News reports that authorities believe Thompson was behind several copycat threats to Jewish centers, and that he is not behind the larger wave of bomb threats.
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UPDATE:
Disgraced journalist Juan Thompson suspected in 8 copycat bomb threats against Jewish centers
TRAVIS GETTYS
03 MAR 2017 AT 10:22 ET
A suspect arrested in a series of bomb threats against Jewish community centers has been identified as a former reporter who fabricated quotes and invented sources for numerous stories.
The FBI arrested 31-year-old Juan Thompson, of St. Louis, in connection with at least eight threats against Jewish community centers, including some in the New York City area, as part of what federal prosecutors called a campaign to harass and intimidate a woman after a breakup.
Nearly 100 JCCs and schools have received bomb threats in five separate waves, most recently Monday when 21 bomb threats were called in to 13 JCCs and eight Jewish schools in Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Virginia.
Investigators consider Thompson a copycat and said he was suspected in only a few of the nationwide threats in recent months.
He allegedly made some of the threats in his own name and others in the victims name, and investigators also said Thompson sent hoax faxes to the womans employer last year detailing claims about her alleged anti-Semitic statements on social media.
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DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)threats were coming from Russia.
MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)I understand that the perp(s) are using various spoofing internet protocols with VOIP.
So they may say Russian and be a teenage boy sitting in Pittsburgh.
My great-granddaughter was getting nasty prank calls from her "friends" at school that would show up as other people on caller ID.
Apparently, it's easy to do.
Gothmog
(145,334 posts)Bonx
(2,053 posts)Ace Rothstein
(3,164 posts)Just a crank and an idiot.
ret5hd
(20,501 posts)So this info will sink like a stone.
B2G
(9,766 posts)I'm seeing on twitter that he converted to Islam.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)shithole is out there trying to lie about that.
B2G
(9,766 posts)I'm just glad the guy has been arrested.
Now if only they can find the source.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)so I have no trouble believing it - far right and far left both seem to have a problem with the Jews.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)For what that is worth.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Even if he is a Muslim.
Nothing in GD at all unless I missed it.
If he were a white man, a Trump supporter - there'd be threads all over.
Du is nothing if not predictable.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)For what that is worth.
7962
(11,841 posts)dalton99a
(81,526 posts)MosheFeingold
(3,051 posts)mitch96
(13,912 posts)It was christian tomb stones that were knocked down and christian schools were the center of the bomb threats??? it would be all over the news/Rush/Fox/notooBritebart/Jones crew
INVASION!!!! CONSPIRACY!!!!!! ITS A OBAMA/HILLARY CABAL!!!!!
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heaven05
(18,124 posts)with idiots like this 'allegedly' creating stupidity like this in the name of love we'll be divided and and chaotic like the RW. We cannot let the mentally ill among us to create diversionary talking points for the nazis in the WH. If he did something like this, he should be punished to the full extent of the law or hospitalized, if found mentally unfit for trial.
B2G
(9,766 posts)I don't think you understand the criteria for this.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)I am not a scholar of law. But well some are and I hope this person, IF responsible, faces help or judgement by his peers. How about that? Hmmmmm....
B2G
(9,766 posts)He will face charges and his peers if he pleads not guilty.
There won't be a loophole for him.
and found guilty, I hope he gets what he deserves. We must keep division between cultures and races at the barest of minimums if we are to defeat the nazis in the WH.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)read he was trying to get back at an ex girlfriend with JCC threats .?
Now he can make stuff up in JAIL
EarthFirst
(2,900 posts)Accused of fabricating quotes and sources; released from The Intercept in 2016.
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)What the hell kind of people are they hiring?
Bradical79
(4,490 posts)Fired him for using faked sources, and impersonating people, including his boss.
JudyM
(29,251 posts)luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)Sorry . I have lost all trust
IronLionZion
(45,460 posts)which won't matter since he's too dark for that.
It was clearly a lot more people in a lot more cities who were doing this separately. I'm worried the Trump/Sessions Justice dept will just call it a day after this and not do anything more. There were cemeteries vandalized in several cities. It was not just one or two people doing it. The worst elements of society are emboldened to make America less great for minorities. I'm surprised they went after the Jews first. Maybe it's because our own government is going after the Muslims and gays and others.
HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Based on his tweets.