UPDATED - Feds arrest suspect behind at least 8 bomb threats against Jewish community centers

[DonViejo]

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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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Developing

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/feds-set-to-announce-arrest-of-suspect-behind-wave-of-bomb-threats-against-jewish-community-centers/

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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 victim’s name, and investigators also said Thompson sent hoax faxes to the woman’s employer last year detailing claims about her alleged anti-Semitic statements on social media.

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http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/anti-jewish-bomb-threat-suspect-juan-thompson-was-disgraced-left-wing-journalist/

[DURHAM D]

1. CNN reported a couple of nights ago that the

threats were coming from Russia.

[MosheFeingold]

19. Maybe

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]

2. Is this idiot a trump supporter?

[Bonx]

14. Based on this tweet, not likely

Link to tweet

More at: http://heavy.com/news/2017/03/juan-thompson-jcc-jewish-community-center-bomb-threats-suspect-arrest-charge-photos-st-louis-new-york/

[Ace Rothstein]

16. He also has a tweet that he voted for Stein.

[MosheFeingold]

18. Nope

Just a crank and an idiot.

[ret5hd]

3. Thompson...Thompson...Wait, that doesn't sound Jewish at all!!!

[Mz Pip]

5. Or Muslim.

So this info will sink like a stone.

[B2G]

9. Not all Muslims have 'Muslim sounding names'

I'm seeing on twitter that he converted to Islam.

[leftynyc]

20. I'm sure every right wing

shithole is out there trying to lie about that.

[B2G]

21. No doubt, but it was on his feed.

I'm just glad the guy has been arrested.

Now if only they can find the source.

[leftynyc]

22. Well, he voted for Stein

so I have no trouble believing it - far right and far left both seem to have a problem with the Jews.

[oberliner]

33. He was a Bernie guy in the primary

For what that is worth.

[cwydro]

30. I redict that this will get very little play on DU.

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]

31. He is Muslim

For what that is worth.

[7962]

4. Good to hear! nt

[dalton99a]

6. U S v. Juan Thompson Complaint:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3480376-U-S-v-Juan-Thompson-Complaint.html

[MosheFeingold]

27. His poor ex. What a putz n/m

[mitch96]

7. Can you imagine the shit storm if

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]

8. geez!!!

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]

10. Mentally unfit for trial?

I don't think you understand the criteria for this.

[heaven05]

12. probably don't

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]

13. It's not an 'or' situation.

He will face charges and his peers if he pleads not guilty.

There won't be a loophole for him.

[heaven05]

15. if not

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]

11. Long history of crazy fake stuff

http://www.robertfeder.com/2016/02/02/ex-chicago-journalist-tied-to-fake-quotes-in-stories/


read he was trying to get back at an ex girlfriend with JCC threats .?
Now he can make stuff up in JAIL

[EarthFirst]

17. Former disgraced journalist who worked for The Intercept

Accused of fabricating quotes and sources; released from The Intercept in 2016.

[AngryAmish]

23. I have some doubts that this sort of thing is allowed by the 1st Amendment

[Blue_Tires]

24. LOL and he's a former Intercept staffer?

What the hell kind of people are they hiring?

[Bradical79]

34. Yeah, I remember the scandal

Fired him for using faked sources, and impersonating people, including his boss.

[JudyM]

25. Pretty easy arrest since he made some of the threats using his own name...

[luvMIdog]

26. If they say he's Muslim I'm really gonna have my doubts. They need to stir that pot right now.

Sorry . I have lost all trust

[IronLionZion]

28. Dude sounds mentally ill

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]

29. Oddball

[oberliner]

32. He is a hard-core anti-Israel person

Based on his tweets.