Juan Thompson is charged in New York with one federal count of cyberstalking. He was in court in St. Louis for a preliminary hearing when the indictment was handed up by a federal grand jury in the Southern District of New York Wednesday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
Federal officials have been investigating bomb threats called and emailed in to numerous Jewish Community Center schools, child care and similar facilities across the country that began Jan. 9. Thompson allegedly started making his own threats Jan. 28. He is not accused of making all the threats, and authorities are continuing to investigate many of the incidents, they said.
Thompson, a former journalist, was fired from the online publication The Intercept last year after being accused of fabricating several quotes and creating fake email accounts to impersonate people.