Authorities have notified the ADL that a suspect is in custody in connection with the bomb threat at the ADL headquarters, as well as at Jewish Centers.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) will hold a press conference at 2 p.m. this afternoon to discuss the arrest of a St. Louis man charged in connection with the bomb threats against Jewish Community Centers and its national headquarters building in New York City.
“According to a complaint unsealed this morning in Manhattan federal court, Juan Thompson, 31, of St. Louis, Missouri, appears to have made at least eight of the threats against JCCs in January and February as part of a sustained campaign to harass and intimidate a former girlfriend,” the ADL said.
The arrested individual was on the radar of ADL’s Center on Extremism, which had followed his past activities in the past, including his deceptive and at times false reports for a news website about Dylann Roof, the perpetrator of the church shooting in Charleston, SC. Thompson has been charged with one count of cyberstalking, and other charges are likely pending.
Speakers at the press conference will include:
Evan Bernstein, ADL New York Regional Director
Oren Segal, Director of ADL’s Center on Extremism
Probably a radical leftist. Anti trump person.
Turns out this was just a copy cat that was trying to frame his ex girlfriend for the bombing. The suspect isn’t the person that did all of the threats.
Fake news. This fellow was only arrested for 8 threats, not all 166 of them.