A former Northeastern University employee who said he was injured when a package he was opening on the Boston campus exploded last month was charged Tuesday with fabricating the incident after being arrested in Texas.
Jason Duhaime, formerly the new technology manager and director of the university’s Immersive Media Lab, was charged with "conveying false and misleading information related to an explosive device" and then lying to federal investigators, federal authorities said. He was arrested near his San Antonio home.
According to an FBI affidavit, "The inside and outside of the case did not bear any marks, dents, cracks, holes, or other signs that it had been exposed to a forceful or explosive discharge of any type or magnitude." The FBI affidavit said the letter was "pristine" and "bore no tears, holes, burn marks or any other indication that it had been near any sort of forceful or explosive discharge."
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