A former manager of new technology at Northeastern University in Boston was arrested on Tuesday and charged with making a false report that he had been injured when a suspicious package that he opened exploded inside a campus building last month, federal prosecutors said.
The former employee, Jason Duhaime, was charged with conveying false information and hoaxes related to an explosive device as well as making materially false, fictitious and fraudulent statements to a federal agency, according to court records.
Mr. Duhaime had told a 911 operator and a federal agent that he was injured by “sharp” objects expelled from a plastic case that he opened inside a Northeastern lab on the evening of Sept. 13 and that the case contained a threatening letter, court records say.
When an officer responded, Mr. Duhaime raised his sleeves and showed “several small, superficial marks or bruises on his lower forearms,” according to court records, but his shirt “did not appear damaged.”
At the hospital, Mr. Duhaime told a Boston Police detective that as soon as he had opened the case “there was this rush of — I don’t know how to explain it — energy, air, whatever,” according to court records.
The authorities said an investigation had revealed that Mr. Duhaime wrote the letter, that the case contained no “sharp” objects, that nothing was expelled when he opened it, and that he was not injured as a result, court records say.
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