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Foster Fan Busted for Bomb Threats
This flight plan starring Jodie Foster wasn't so successful.
A Massachusetts man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly mailing a bomb threat that mentioned the Oscar-winning actress to a Los Angeles-area airport in December.
Michael Smegal, who promised to break the habit after admitting to postal inspectors in 2005 he had been sending anonymous letters to Foster for about a year, was taken into custody and charged in U.S. District Court in Boston.
According to the FBI, in 2004, Smegal included a phone number for a prepaid cell phone in one of the packages he sent to Foster, along with a request for the Silence of the Lambs star to call the number.
"Law enforcement called the number and spoke to an individual who identified himself as Michael Smegal," FBI Special Agent Joseph Altman wrote in an affidavit released Tuesday. "Smegal spoke with the agent and used the phone to send photographs of himself and his dog."
Per Altman's report, the letter Smegal sent to Van Nuys Airport, largely a landing spot for private planes, is one of more than 100 near-identical copies of a letter sent to celebrities, businesses, airports and other L.A.-area locations between September 2007and January 2008.
Some of them, including the Van Nuys communiqué, which threatened there's "going to be a gas bomb this building," contained the words "Jodie Foster S."
Following a search of his home on Jan. 8, during which federal agents turned up several copies of the exact letter sent to Van Nuys, Smegel indicated he sent those letters on Foster's behalf, choosing airports in particular because of a perceived connection with the Screen Actors Guild, which he thought had slighted Foster in some way.
If convicted of mailing a bomb threat to an airport, Smegal, 42, is facing up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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