Canadian man arrested for bomb threats to Boston hospitals, other institutions

A Canadian man has been arrested in reference to a number of bomb threats focused at Boston establishments, together with hospitals and a theater, police mentioned Monday. 

Joshua Kimble, 42, of Peterborough, Ontario was arrested by native authorities on Sept. 26. He’s at the moment in custody, awaiting trial. 

Starting on Sept. 9, police recognized a sequence of bomb threats despatched on-line to Boston Kids’s Hospital. All through the following 4 days, Boston Police mentioned, extra bomb threats have been despatched to and obtained by the Prudential Middle, the Orpheum Theater, Massachusetts Basic Hospital, and the Boston Public Library. Native investigators discovered that the threats had many similarities and all originated in Canada. 

Officers with the Boston Police Division contacted regulation enforcement in Canada on Sept. 13, and shared these findings with the Peterborough Police Service. Via coordinated work, police recognized Kimble because the suspect. Canadian police have been granted an arrest warrant and a search warrant for Kimble’s house.

He’s charged in Canada with twelve counts of Public Mischief, twelve counts of False Info, and one rely of Failing to Adjust to a Probation Order.

This isn’t the primary time in latest months that Boston Kids’s Hospital has been the topic of a bomb menace. Police arrested a Westfield girl final month in reference to a menace made to the hospital in late August. 

The menace, which turned out to be a hoax, was made concerning providers provided on the hospital’s Gender Multispecialty Service, officers mentioned on the time. The division presents “individualized, protected, and affirmative care to gender-diverse and transgender people and their households.”

Boston Kids’s Hospital has been the main target of an prolonged harassment marketing campaign primarily based on info being unfold on-line concerning the division, officers mentioned. This yr, the hospital obtained dozens of hoax threats, together with telephone calls, emails, particular person loss of life threats, and threats of mass casualty assaults.

Police didn’t say whether or not Kimble’s alleged threats had any reference to the others despatched to Boston Kids’s Hospital this yr.