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| 2017-03-10 | |
New York City’s head of police intelligence said Thursday that Sherlocks believe one man using a voice changer and phone spoofing device is behind a large number of the scores of threats made against US Jewish institutions this year. John Miller appeared on the show "CBS This Morning," describing the attacks as coordinated. The spoofing device makes it appear the call is not coming from the number the man is using, and makes it appear it’s coming from within the institution, he said. "We have an offender with some technical prowess here," Miller said. The Anti-Defamation League says 148 threats targeting Jewish institutions have been received across the country since January. On Thursday, a Jewish children’s museum in Brooklyn was evacuated for a few hours after police investigated an emailed bomb threat. Hours later a JCC in Los Gatos, California, near San Jose, was evacuated over a bomb threat. One arrest has been made in the threats, a St. Louis man accused of making eight of the calls in an effort to harass his ex-girlfriend. Juan Thompson has asked a federal judge in Missouri to release him on bond as he faces the federal charges out of New York. Thompson’s lawyer declined comment. Miller said the New York Police Department is working with federal officials who are the lead Sherlocks on the case. He said he’s working with institutions in New York to help them manage responses to the threats. "Most of the time, the person who’s legitimately trying to do harm doesn’t call ahead to diminish the amount of harm he or she is doing," he said. 3 teens send anonymous apology, $50 for library swastika [Ynet] Three teenagers have delivered an anonymous apology note and $50 to the Pennsylvania library where they sprayed a swastika using shaving cream in a parking lot. The teens left the envelope containing the note and the money in a book depository at the Exeter Community Library. Police and firefighters were called to wash away the graffiti on Friday. The envelope was found by library workers on Monday. The teens' note says they are "three stupid teenagers apologizing for our heinous acts." The teens go on to say that they didn't intend to offend or hurt anyone. The teens say they "all have religious roots and did not intentionally mean this as any form of hate speech or dislikeness towards any culture." The teens apologized and say they'll never do anything like that again. Florida homeless man to be charged for scratching swastikas [IsraelTimes] An incarcerated homeless man will be charged with criminal mischief for allegedly scratching swastikas into several cars in a Jewish neighborhood in Miami Beach. The swastikas were found on the cars on February 26, including one owned by a non-Jewish family. Timothy Merriam, 61, is already in jail on charges of using scissors to slash the tires of more than 100 rental bikes on Miami Beach owned by the city’s public bike share program. While in prison, he made statements that led detectives to believe that he had also scratched the swastikas into the cars, the Miami Herald reported, citing the Miami Beach police. Police told NBC Miami that they will be working with the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s office to determine if hate crime charges should also be filed. Police have video evidence connecting Merriam to both the swastika vandalism and the tire slashing. | |
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