Former Intercept journalist Juan Thompson has been arrested for making bomb threats against Jewish institutions, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York. Thompson was arrested in St. Louis, Missouri on Friday.
According to the statement from the D.A.’s office, he is suspected of being behind some of the recent threats against the Jewish community, but was not responsible for all of the calls or the vandalism that has occurred recently, as headstones also have been vandalized at Jewish cemeteries in Missouri, Pennsylvania and, most recently, upstate New York.
Thompson was fired from The Intercept last year after evidence emerged that he had fabricated quotations and impersonated people through fake email accounts.