Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Harvard University student who wasn’t prepared for his final exam decided to buy himself some time. On Monday, Eldo Kim, 20, emailed threats that claimed there were “bombs placed around campus” about a half hour before his test, NBC News reports, citing the FBI. Sure enough, the alarms rang at 9…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A man convinced that the FBI had implanted a tracking device into his head threatened to detonate an explosive burrito at the bureau’s Albuquerque field office, the Albuquerque Journal reports. Brian DeMarco, 50, called up the FBI from his Super 8 motel room to warn that he planned to blow up a…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Prosecutors in the case against a former college student accused of trying to detonate a bomb near Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland will begin presenting evidence in the case today, KOIN Local 6 reports. During open arguments Friday, the prosecution painted Mohamed Mohamud as a calculating jihadist intent on killing as many…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Home Depot worker has been arrested for threatening to detonate bombs inside the stores unless he received $2 million in ransom money, the New York Daily News reports. Daniel Patrick Sheehan, 50, threatened to shut down all Long Island stores on Black Friday by detonating three pipe bombs inside Home Depots,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com There are lies. And then there are big fat lies that can land you behind bars. Daniel Gerald Peterson, 26, told one of those big fat lies, and on Monday he pleaded guilty in Minneapolis federal court to providing the FBI with false information about a bomb threat he made up,…
