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A 33-year-old Peruvian man has been arrested for allegedly sending greater than 150 faux bomb threats to U.S. faculties, airports, synagogues, hospitals and a mall, the Justice Division stated Thursday.
Eddie Manuel Nunez Santos “allegedly engaged on this reprehensible and socially damaging conduct in a twisted try to retaliate in opposition to teenage women who refused his requests for nude and sexually specific pictures,” U.S. Lawyer Damian Williams stated. Nunez Santos was arrested in Peru on Tuesday.
Investigators stated Nunez Santos posed as a teenage boy on-line and requested a number of minors to ship him sexually specific images. When the women refused his alleged requests or lower off communications, Nunez Santos allegedly threatened to bomb their faculties or kill them.
A number of of the emailed threats included the telephone numbers of the underage victims, together with directions for the focused establishments to contact the women.
The threats, made in New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Arizona and Alaska, triggered college evacuations, a hospital lockdown and flight delays. Nearly all of the threats, which started in mid-September, had been despatched to varsities.
In Pennsylvania, greater than 1,100 schoolchildren throughout a number of college districts had been evacuated in response to at least one risk.
“I am going to gladly smile when your households are crying due to your deaths,” Nunez Santos allegedly wrote in an electronic mail to 24 college districts.
Two synagogues in Westchester County, New York, additionally acquired risk emails, in accordance with the prison grievance.
“The bombs I positioned within the constructing will blow up in just a few hours,” Nunez Santos allegedly wrote to one of many synagogues. “Many individuals will lay in a pool of blood.”
Nunez Santos was charged with a number of federal crimes, together with transmitting threatening interstate communications, conveying false info and hoaxes, making an attempt to sexually exploit a toddler, making an attempt to coerce and entice a minor and making an attempt to obtain little one pornography. He faces a most sentence of life in jail if he is convicted.