Juan Thompson

Juan Thompson Has Not Been At Fbi-raided House In Months, Stepfather Says

... raided a north St. Louis home that is connected to Thompson. It is also home to Thompson's step-father, Tyrone Lampkin. Lampkin said his children were waiting for their school bus when the FBI forcibly came through the door. "The door was opened, (they) could have opened the door. No one was keeping (them) out," Tyrone Lampkin said. The man also said the residence is one that Thompson has not visited in months. News 4 learned the FBI took electronics from the home, that the step-father said only belonged to his children and grand-children. He said none of the items the FBI agents took belonged to Thompson. As they agents came down the steps with items from the home, Thompson's step-father said the allegations against his step-son were shocking, but did not know much outside of what he was told by the FBI. "I don't know (anything) right now," Lampkin ...

St. Louis Man Arrested For Making Threats Against Jewish Community Centers

... in an attempt to frame him, the complaint alleges. It could not be immediately determined if Thompson has an attorney. Jewish community centers and schools have been the targets of a series of bomb threats made via telephone since 2017 began, sparking fears of rising anti-Semitism around the country. Thompson’s arrest, in St. Louis, was the result of the ongoing investigation into those bomb threats, officials said. “Thompson’s alleged pattern of harassment not only involved the defamation of his female victim, but his threats intimidated an entire community,” FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge William F. Sweeney Jr. said in a statement. Thompson is the same individual who previously worked as a reporter for The Intercept, the online news publication, according to previous CNN reporting and a review of Thompson’s Twitter account. Several tweets from his Twitter account, @Juan MThompson, are referenced in the criminal complaint. That Twitter account is linked to articles bearing his byline at The Intercept. Thompson was fired from the ...

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Reporter Says Bomb Threat Suspect Harassed Him

... by Murphy. Murphy says he contacted Twitter but every time one fake account was taken down a new one popped up. He calls the harassment a "nightmare.". 4:55 p.m. The Federal Communications Commission says Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer requested an emergency waiver to Jewish community centers and their phone carriers in the wake of threats nationwide. The FCC said Friday that it will grant the waiver to allow the centers and carriers to track the numbers of callers who make threats, even if the caller tries to block the number. Thirty-one-year-old Juan Thompson was arrested in St. Louis and accused of making at least eight of the scores of threats against Jewish institutions, including a bomb threat to New York's Anti-Defamation League. He appeared in court Friday. Federal officials have been investigating 122 bomb threats called in to Jewish organizations in three dozen states since Jan. 9 as well as a rash of episodes of vandalism at Jewish cemeteries. 4:20 p.m. Missouri's governor is thanking law enforcers for their work ...

Man Who 'made Bomb Threats Against Jewish Community Centers' Arrested

... 21, Thompson allegedly emailed a threat to the New York offices of the Anti-Defamation League (seen above). Federal authorities also say that Thompson used his Twitter feed to allege that the woman in question made threats against him as well as President Donald Trump. Thompson claimed in the tweets that the woman was trying to frame him. 'Y'all know how to get a social worker in NY barred?' he tweeted on Monday. 'I'm being stalked and harassed by a white nasty white woman in NYC.'. He tweeted that he had been questioned by the FBI and the Secret Service who were investigating the matter. 'The Secret Service visited me looked at my tweets, questioned my politics b/c some awful white woman I date reported me,' Thompson tweeted the same day. 'I won't be silenced.'. The ADL tweeted on Friday that the suspect behind the threat had been arrested. In a pinned tweet on his account, he wrote a rambling note filled with accusations against the woman and 'the racist FBI.'. ‘Two years ago, after swearing off white women, I started dating one,’ he tweeted. ‘She seemed like a cool Brooklyn white radical. There were [sic] warning signs though; she didn’t tell me ...

Juan Thompson 'threatened Jewish Centres To Frame Ex

... reported since January 1, labelling them an "epidemic". Law enforcement authorities are also investigating attacks on Jewish cemeteries in three cities which saw hundreds of gravestones tumbled and broken. The latest took place in Rochester, New York late on Wednesday. "Just because there's been an arrest today doesn't mean that threats have disappear or will stop," Evan Bernstein, New York regional director for the Anti-Defamation League - also a target of the bomb threats - told a press conference on Friday. "There are many more JCC bomb threats that have not been solved. and we hope all law enforcement will continue to be diligent.". Bomb threat. Thompson started making threats on January 28, a criminal complaint said.  It is unclear why Jewish organisations were targeted. The first threat was in an email to the Jewish History Museum in New York written from an account that made it appear as if it were being sent by an ex-girlfriend. "Juan Thompson put 2 bombs in the History Museum ...

Fallen Journalist Accused Of Bomb Threats Is A Serial Liar

... Thompson claimed that he had been tear-gassed. “My eyes burned and my lips felt as if my Chapstick had been contaminated with Wasabi paste,” he said. “As people scattered, someone in the crowd fired a gun into the air. Upon hearing the shots I instinctively hit the ground and cowered behind a car. Being raised in west St. Louis, I was taught to always kiss the floor when I hear the ‘pop, pop, pop’ of a gun.”. Thompson’s last story for The Intercept was in December 2015. He was fired in January 2016 after the outlet claimed to have “discovered a pattern of deception” in his actions. “Thompson fabricated several quotes in his stories and created fake email accounts that he used to impersonate people, one of which was a Gmail account in my name,” Intercept editor-in-chief Betsy Reed explained in a statement on Feb. 2, 2016. “An investigation into Thompson’s reporting turned up three instances in which quotes were ...

St. Louis Man Accused Of Making Threats Against Jewish Centers, Schools

... sent a message to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, accusing the women of watching child porn. Thompson is accused of making the following threats against Jewish centers, none of which were found to be credible. Jan. 28: Manhattan's Jewish History Museum received an emailed bomb threat stating that Thompson had placed two bombs there. Feb. 1: A Jewish school in Farmington Hills, Mich., received an emailed bomb threat claiming that Thompson "put two bombs in your school last night. He is eager for Jewish newtown.". Feb. 1: A Jewish school in Manhattan received two messages in 10 minutes claiming that Thompson had placed bombs in the building. Feb. 7: A Jewish community center in Manhattan received an emailed threat claiming that Thompson had stashed two bombs in the center's office. Feb. 20: The JCC in San Diego received an email stating that the woman had placed a bomb in the center. Feb. 21: The Council on American-Islamic Relations received an email stating that the woman "has put a bomb in the Jewish center in Dallas.". Feb. 21: The Anti-Defamation League received an email that said the woman "is behind the bomb threats ...

University City Police Still Searching For Clues To Jewish Cemetery Vandalism

... Thompson tweeted about vandalism at Jewish cemeteries. And ppl says Jews don't face bigotry and violence. How would you feel if nasty white ppl destroyed MLK's gravesite? #philadelphia. — Juan M. Thompson (@Juan MThompson) February 26, 2017. He was referring to the copycat Jewish cemetery vandalism case that followed the one in University City. One of the bomb threats he’s accused of making at Jewish centers came the same day as the vandalism in University City. He’s accused making two anti-Semitic threats the next day. When there’s a guy from St. Louis accused of these crimes around the same time as the discovery of 154 overturned headstones at the historic Chessed Shel Emeth Jewish Cemetery in University City, police have to check it out. Detectives said they’re also reviewing more than 100 hours of surveillance video from buildings surrounding the cemetery. “Detectives are reviewing the video frame-by-frame,” said University City Police Captain Frederick Lemons. “Since there are multiple angles with multiple businesses, this is something meticulous that ...