Former Northeastern University lab manager convicted of staging hoax explosion at Boston campus

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A former lab manager at Northeastern University has been convicted of staging a hoax explosion at the Boston campus and then lying about what happened to federal agents. Jason Duhaime of San Antonio was convicted on three counts Friday. The 46-year-old Duhaime faces up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 for each offense.

Jason Duhaime, 46, from San Antonio, Texas, was convicted on three counts Friday by a federal jury. He faces up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 for each offense.

Duhaime worked as the university’s new technology manager and director of the Immersive Media Lab. In September 2022, he called the university police to say he’d collected several packages from a mail area, including two Pelican hard plastic cases, and that when he opened one of the cases, it exploded and sharp objects flew out and injured his arms.

He showed police a letter he told them he’d found inside the case, which claimed the lab was trying to get people to live inside a virtual reality world and was secretly working with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and the U.S. government.A father who lost 2 sons in a Boeing Max crash waits to hear if the US will prosecute the company“In the case you got today we could have planted explosives but not this time!!!” the note read, court documents show.

 

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