Stoughton man sentenced for sending bomb threats to schools via email
A Stoughton man was sentenced Wednesday for sending bomb threats to several schools and universities in three different states via email, the U.S. Attorney’s office said in a statement Wednesday.Anthony Rae, 25, was sentenced to time served in prison, about 17 months, and three years of supervised release after pleading guilty in October 2016 to five counts of sending bomb threats.During nine months, Rae used multiple email accounts to send bomb threats to educational institution in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Illinois, according to the statement.The U.S. Attorney’s office said Rae sent two emails from a Gmail account he created threatening to bomb an elementary school in Chicago, Illinois, and several public schools in Norwood, Massachusetts, in October 2014.Rae then hacked his mother’s Hotmail account and used it to send two bomb threats to ITT Technical Institute in Norwood, his own school, according to authorities.In June 2015, police executed a search warrant at Rae’s residence and seized multiple electronic devices, the U.S. Attorney’s office said. Rae then sent a bomb threat to Rhode Island College in Providence, Rhode Island, the next day, using a computer available to tenants in his apartment complex, according to authorities. He was arrested on June 19, 2015.
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