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Teen Ashton Lundeby Charged as an Adult for Bomb Threats
A 16-year-old North Carolina boy arrested for allegedly making a bomb threat against Purdue University has been charged as an adult for that threat, and for threats against eight other schools and two FBI offices, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. Ashton Lundeby allegedly staged bomb hoaxes from mid-2008 until his arrest last March. He’s charged with conspiring to make threats against Purdue, the University of North Carolina, Florida State University, Clemson University, Boston College and FBI offices in Colorado and Louisiana.
Continue reading »Mom Loses Bid for Purdue Bomb Hoax Suspect’s Freedom
The mother of a 16-year-old internet prank call star charged with phoning in a bomb hoax to Purdue University has lost her habeas corpus lawsuit demanding his release, meaning the teen will continue to be held without bail in Indiana. Annette Lundeby relocated from her North Carolina home to an Indiana motel room last month to personally fight for her son’s freedom. She filed a 14-page brief in federal court reasserting her claim that her son was with her in church at the time of the February 15 telephone call that summoned a bomb squad and evacuated the Mechanical Engineering building at Purdue.
Continue reading »Teenage Bomb Threat Suspect Was an Internet Prank Phone Call Star
A 16-year-old North Carolina boy arrested for allegedly making a bomb threat against Purdue University had a secret identity as a superstar in an unusual online subculture, one dedicated to making prank phone calls for a live internet audience, his mother admitted Thursday. “I heard the prank phone calls he made,” says Annette Lundeby of Oxford. “They were really funny prank phone calls….
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