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Digital Trail Helps Lead To Terror Hoax Suspect

Sharon Gaudin writes on InformationWeek:

The computer that a 20-year-old Wisconsin man used to make an online posting that threatened to detonate radioactive 'dirty bombs' may also have led to his discovery and arrest.

Computer forensics played a key role in the investigation that culminated in the Oct. 20 arrest of Jake J. Brahm of Wauwatosa, Wis. Brahm, who is a grocery store worker, was charged with one count of willfully conveying false information or hoaxes threatening buildings through the use of weapons of mass destruction and radiological dispersal devices. His threat involved setting off bombs in football stadiums in seven states on Oct. 22.

Brahm faces a maximum of five years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine.

posted by Fergie @ 10/26/2006 12:41:00 PM