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FBI arrests suspect in bomb threat investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation today announced that it has made an arrest related to the wave of bomb threats made against Jewish institutions across the US in the past few months

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The FBI has made an arrest in the investigation into those behind the bomb threats made against Jewish institutions across the country over the past two months.

The FBI said on Friday the suspect was 31-year-old Juan Thompson from St. Louis, Missouri.

US prosecutors in New York said he had been charged with cyberstalking for his alleged role in the bomb scares.

He allegedly made some of the bomb threats in his ex-girlfriend's name in an attempt to harass her.

The Anti-Defamation League was the first organisation to report the arrest, after it was contacted by the New York Police Department and New York State Police about the arrest.

The ADL's national offices in New York received a bomb threat from an anonymous caller on February 22, amid a spate of such calls made to Jewish organizations, synagogues and community centers across the United States.

There have been five waves of bomb threats aimed at Jewish institutions in 30 US states and three acts of vandalism at Jewish cemeteries in the past two months.

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