A person was arrested in Peru after US officers say he despatched 150 bomb threats to US college districts, synagogues, airports, hospitals, and to a mall final month, in response to Division of Justice officers.

Investigators mentioned Eddie Manuel Núñez Santos of Lima, Peru, approached younger women on an unnamed gaming platform posing as a teenage boy named “Lucas” and requested they ship him sexually specific images of themselves.

Court docket paperwork allege when the ladies refused, he threatened to kill them, blow up their colleges, and made different threats in an try to extort the kid sexual abuse materials from them.

He then emailed or crammed out on-line kinds to ship hoax bomb threats to these locations and others, investigators mentioned.

The threats had been positioned between September 15 and September 21 in New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Arizona, and Alaska, in response to court docket paperwork.

A minimum of 4 women as younger as 13 years outdated had been focused by way of the web gaming platform, investigators mentioned.

Investigators filed an arrest warrant for Núñez, 33, within the US Southern District of New York on prices of threatening interstate communications, making false data and hoaxes, tried sexual exploitation of a kid, tried coercion of a kid, and tried receipt of kid sexual abuse supplies.

He was arrested on September 26 by Peruvian police, the Division of Justice mentioned. It was unclear whether or not he had been extradited to the USA as of Monday, and court docket data didn’t present a primary look or arraignment had occurred.

No lawyer data was listed within the federal court docket docket, which was unsealed late final week. A message left with the federal public defender’s workplace in New York was not instantly returned.

In Pennsylvania, 24 college districts obtained the pretend bomb threats. A number of college districts evacuated college students or cancelled college in response, in response to the charging paperwork.

“The defendant’s relentless marketing campaign of false bomb threats prompted an instantaneous mobilisation by federal and state authorities, diverting crucial regulation enforcement and public security sources, and prompted concern in tons of of communities throughout this nation,” US Lawyer Damian Williams mentioned in an emailed assertion.

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