FBI Makes Arrest In Anti-Semitic Bomb Threats

March 3, 2017 Crime, News

ABC News reports:

A man accused of making at least eight threats against Jewish Community Centers was arrested by the FBI in St. Louis, Missouri, this morning. The suspect, 31-year-old Juan Thompson, is accused of what federal prosecutors called a “campaign to harass and intimidate.” He’s charged in New York with cyberstalking a woman by communicating threats to JCCs in the woman’s name. Prosecutors said Thompson “appears to have made at least eight of the JCC threats as part of a sustained campaign to harass and intimidate” the woman after their romantic relationship ended.

Thompson was in the news last year for a different reason:

Juan Thompson, who until November was a reporter for The Intercept, has been fired from the national security site after editors unspooled “a pattern of deception” that revealed he fabricated quotes and misled colleagues in order to cover his tracks, Editor-in-Chief Betsy Reed said in a note to readers.

“An investigation into Thompson’s reporting turned up three instances in which quotes were attributed to people who said they had not been interviewed. In other instances, quotes were attributed to individuals we could not reach, who could not remember speaking with him, or whose identities could not be confirmed. In his reporting Thompson also used quotes that we cannot verify from unnamed people whom he claimed to have encountered at public events. Thompson went to great lengths to deceive his editors, creating an email account to impersonate a source and lying about his reporting methods.”

Thompson has also attacked Trump multiple times on Twitter, accusing him of being part of “the ethic cleansing” of blacks living in Chicago. The Intercept is edited by gay journalist Glenn Greenwald.



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