ICYMI: Federal authorities have charged a Northeastern University worker with planting a hoax bomb on campus, and then claiming he was injured by a blast that never occurred.
Jason Duhaime was arrested in Texas and charged with"conveying false information and hoaxes related to an explosive device and making materially false and fictitious statements in a matter within the executive branch of the government of the United States."
Duhaime worked as the new technology manager and director of the Immersive Media Lab at Northeastern. According to the affidavit filed as part of the federal criminal complaint, he called 911 on Sept. 13 to say he found a case that contained an explosive and a"violent note." The note found was a screed about technology that name-checked Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and threatened to blow up the lab.
Duhaime told the police at the scene that there was a second case, which was in the lab's storage closet. Bomb technicians X-rayed the box, found it was empty, but decided to detonate it as a precaution. During its investigation into the incident, agents seized a computer used by Duhaime. On it, they found a backup file that contained a"word-for-word, electronic" copy of the letter he said he found with the case. The file's metadata showed the letter was created at 3 p.m. on Sept. 13.
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