A reported explosion at Northeastern University last month was a hoax perpetrated by a former employee, who has been arrested and charged for orchestrating the hoax and lying to federal authorities about it.
of the purported plastic case and the letter, which it said was allegedly written by Duhaime and threatened further violence against the lab.
Federal officials began investigating Duhaime the day after the 911 call, citing inconsistencies in his stories and the injuries he'd sustained.Duhaime has been charged with "one count of intentionally conveying false and misleading information related to an explosive device and one count of making materially false statements to a federal law enforcement agent," per the press release.
According to court documents unsealed Tuesday, neither the plastic case nor the letter bore any marks of having been near an explosion. When questioned by law inforcement, Duhaime's story didn't line up with what he'd said on his 911 call, but he denied any fabrication, per the DOJ. Duhaime was arrested in Texas on Tuesday morning and will make his first appearance in federal court in Boston at a later, unspecified date.
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