Teenager Admits Threat to Bomb IBM Headquarters
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NEW YORK — An 18-year-old Panamanian admitted he sent e-mail bomb threats to IBM, claiming he would demolish the company headquarters unless he was paid $5 million, authorities said Friday.
Jahair Joel Navarro was charged with threatening to use a weapon of mass destruction. The crime, which falls under federal anti-terrorism statutes, carries a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole.
Navarro, a legal resident of the United States, was ordered held without bail after prosecutors told a judge he had sent a similar threat to Microsoft Corp. in Redmond, Wash.
Agents who searched Navarro’s family’s apartment in Brooklyn found bomb-making recipes and documents relating to terrorist techniques that appeared to have been downloaded from the Internet, U.S. Atty. Mary Jo White said.
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