Man who said he discovered package at Northeastern University may have staged incident, law enforcement officials say
Federal officials are now examining whether the employee who reported an explosion at Northeastern University may have lied to investigators and staged the incident, law enforcement officials said on Wednesday.
Investigators identified inconsistencies in the employee’s statement and became skeptical because his injuries did not match wounds typically consistent with an explosion, said one official.
A Northeastern spokesperson, Shannon Nargi, had said earlier that an unidentified staff member suffered minor injuries to his hand. Felipe Colon, a Boston police superintendent, described the victim as a 45-year-old man.
The package exploded on the campus of Northeastern University in Boston late on Tuesday. The college had said a staff member suffered minor injuries.
CNN cited “several federal law enforcement sources” as saying the package contained “a rambling note that criticized Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and the relationship between academic institutions and the developers of virtual reality”.
Authorities said another suspicious package was found near the Museum of Fine Arts, on the outskirts of the Northeastern campus, and neutralized by the Boston bomb squad. The FBI was assisting with the investigation.
Northeastern is a private university in downtown Boston with about 16,000 undergraduate students.
NBC Boston reported that the package that exploded...
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