Stoughton Man Charged With Threatening to Bomb Schools in Four States

Authorities say a Stoughton man sent multiple false bomb threats to schools in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and North Carolina.

Anthony Rae, 24, will appear in U.S. District Court in Boston Wednesday afternoon. He was charge through a criminal complaint with bomb threats according to the U.S. Attorney’s office. Rae was previously charged in Norfolk District Court, but those charges were dismissed earlier today and he was taken into federal custody.

According to the complaint, Rae used three different email accounts to send bomb threats to schools in four different states over the past year. In October 2014, Rae allegedly sent two emails from a Gmail account he created to an elementary school in Chicago, Ill and several public schools in Norwood, Mass. He also allegedly hacked his mother’s email account and used it to send two bomb threats to ITT Technical Institute in Norwood, the school he was attending.

Police executed a search warrant at Rae’s apartment and seized numerous electronic devices. The next day, Rae allegedly used a public computer available to tenants of his apartment complex to send a bomb threat to Rhode Island College in Providence, R.I.

Rae was arrested on June 19 and charged with making threats to the schools. He was released and had restrictions on the use of electronic devices and was subjected to GPS monitoring.

Last month, however, Rae created a new Gmail account and threatened to bomb North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C.

Raw faces up to 10 years in prison, three years probation, and a fine of $250,000. He is scheduled to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge David H. Hennessy in Boston at 2:15 p.m.

Photo Credit: Norwood Police